dead end

dead end

See also: deadend and dead-end

English

Alternative forms

• dead-end
• deadend

Pronunciation

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Noun

dead end (plural dead ends)

1. (idiomatic) A street or path that goes nowhere or is blocked on one end.

   That road comes to a dead end at the lake.

2. A position that offers no hope of progress.

   Her father suggested that she decline the job because it was a dead end.

3. A split end in the hair.
   • 1890, The Young Lady's Private Counselor (page 208)

     Cut the ends of the hair once a month certain — no matter if you do cut but just the tips of a fourth of an inch, cut it. Cut off the dead ends every month as regularly as the new moon comes round.

Synonyms

• cul-de-sac
• blind alley
• impasse

Translations

street or path that goes nowhere

Arabic: طَرِيق مَسْدُود‎ m (ṭarīq masdūd), طَرِيق غَيْر نَافِذ‎ m (ṭarīq ḡayr nāfiḏ) Armenian: փակուղի (hy) (pʿakułi) Azerbaijani: dalan (az) Bulgarian: задънена улица f (zadǎnena ulica) Catalan: cul-de-sac (ca) m atzucac (ca) m, carreró sense sortida m, carreró sense eixida m Chinese: Cantonese: 掘頭巷, 掘头巷 (gwat6 tau4 hong6-2) Mandarin: 死衚衕／死胡同 (zh) (sǐhútòng), 死路 (zh) (sǐlù), 死巷 (zh) (sǐxiàng), 末路 (zh) (mòlù) Czech: slepá ulička f Danish: blind vej c, blindgyde (da) c, blindgade c (rare) Dutch: beluik (nl) m Estonian: umbtee, umbtänav, tupik Finnish: umpikuja (fi), pussikatu French: cul-de-sac (fr) m, impasse (fr) f, voie sans issue (fr) f Galician: rúa cega f Georgian: ჩიხი (ka) (čixi) German: Sackgasse (de) f, Stichstraße (de) f Greek: αδιέξοδο (el) n (adiéxodo), αδιέξοδος (el) f (adiéxodos) Ancient: ἀδιέξοδος f (adiéxodos) Hebrew: מבוי סתום‎ m (mavoi satum) Hungarian: zsákutca (hu) Icelandic: botnlangi (is) m, blindgata f, botngata f Indonesian: jalan buntu (id) Italian: cul di sacco m, ronco m, strada senza uscita f, vicolo cieco m, cul de sac (it) m Japanese: 袋小路 (ふくろこうじ, fukurokōji), 行き止まり (いきどまり, ikidomari), 行き詰まり (いきづまり, ikizumari) Kazakh: тұйық (tūiyq) Korean: please add this translation if you can Latin: fundula f Latvian: strupceļš m Macedonian: сле́па у́лица f (slépa úlica), ќо́р-сокак m (ḱór-sokak) Malay: jalan mati (ms) Norman: tchu-d'sa m Norwegian: Bokmål: blindvei (no) m, blindveg (no) m, blindgate (no) m or f Nynorsk: blindveg m, blindgate f Polish: ślepa uliczka (pl) f, ślepy zaułek Portuguese: beco sem saída m, rua sem saída (pt) f, cul-de-sac (pt) m Romanian: fundătură (ro) f, fundac (ro) n Russian: тупи́к (ru) m (tupík) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: слепа улица f, слијепа улица f Roman: slepa ulica f, slijepa ulica f Sicilian: curtigghiu (scn) m Spanish: calle sin salida f, callejón sin salida (es) m, punto muerto (es) m Swedish: återvändsgränd (sv) c Tagalog: daang sukol Thai: ทางตัน (taang-dtan) Turkish: çıkmaz sokak (tr) Ukrainian: глухий кут (hluxyj kut) Vietnamese: ngõ cụt (vi), đường cụt Volapük: sakalusüt

position that offers no hope of progress

Arabic: طَرِيق مَسْدُود‎ m (ṭarīq masdūd) Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Danish: blindgyde (da) c Finnish: umpikuja (fi) French: voie de garage (fr) f, impasse (fr) f, voie sans issue (fr) f Indonesian: jalan buntu (id) Italian: vicolo cieco m, punto morto m, stasi (it) f, stanca (it) f Japanese: 行き詰まり (ikizumari) Korean: please add this translation if you can Polish: ślepa uliczka (pl) Portuguese: impasse m Romanian: impas (ro) n Spanish: punto muerto (es) Thai: ทางตัน (taang-dtan) Vietnamese: ngõ cụt (vi)

See also

• no outlet

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