What is another word for swampy ground?

Pronunciation: [swˈɒmpi ɡɹˈa͡ʊnd] (IPA)

Swampy ground can be described using a variety of synonyms that encapsulate the wet, muddy and waterlogged conditions that typify such terrain. Some potential alternatives include "marshland", "boggy terrain", "waterlogged areas", "wetlands", "quagmires" and "mires". Other potential related words include "soggy", "squishy", "oozy", "muddy" and "boggy". Each of these words can help to convey the sense of dampness and instability that characterizes swampy ground. These synonyms are useful both for describing real-world terrain and also for evoking similar imagery in literary or artistic contexts.

What are the hypernyms for Swampy ground?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Famous quotes with Swampy ground

  • Once, when she [Eliot] was asked which real-life person had been the inspiration for Casaubon — a man whose "soul was sensitive without being enthusiastic; it was too languid to thrill out of self-consciousness into passionate delight; it went on fluttering in the swampy ground where it was hatched, thinking of its own winds and never flying" — she tapped her own breast.
    George Eliot

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