0 something that is extremely complicated and difficult to deal with and makes any progress almost impossible:
The morass of rules and regulations is delaying the start of the project.
1 an area of soft, wet ground in which it is easy to get stuck
2 something that is extremely complicated and difficult to deal with, making any advance almost impossible:
The morass of rules and regulations is delaying the start of the project.
Finally, there is the horror of our alleged moral sense, which ironically leads us into endless moral morasses.
There is at hand a convenient way out of the present morass.
Turning finally to the issue of politics in late seventeenth-century plays, we find ourselves again in a morass.
Similarly, was it possible to create a genuine workers' culture without sinking into a morass of the worst aspects of popular leisure?
Figuring out how to navigate the tremendous morass of data will be a bioinformatic stumbling block.
In the struggle for influence and authority, the troika, more often than not, was mired in a morass of intrigue and friction.
If the remainder of dreams were an undifferentiated morass, perhaps the narrowness of the threat simulation hypothesis would be less problematic.
Wisely they decline to become over-engaged in sorting out this semantic morass.