BLIND ALLEY

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

(figurative) a course of action that is unproductive and offers no hope of improvement

Example:

so far every road that we've been down has turned out to be a blind alley

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("blind alley" is a kind of...):

course; course of action (a mode of action)

Domain usage:

figure; figure of speech; image; trope (language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense)

Meaning:

A street with only one way in or out

Synonyms:

blind alley; cul de sac; dead-end street; impasse

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("blind alley" is a kind of...):

thoroughfare (a public road from one place to another)