blind alley
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a street with only one way in or out
Types & categories
- thoroughfare hypernym
Sense 2 noun
(figurative) a course of action that is unproductive and offers no hope of improvement
all the clues led the police into blind alleys
Types & categories
- course of action hypernym
Related & opposite
- trope domain usage
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | thoroughfare |
| 2 | domain usage | Related & opposite | trope |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | course of action |