Bog Synonyms and Antonyms

bôg, bŏg
A usually low-lying area of soft waterlogged ground and standing water
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. marsh
  2. swamp
  3. mire
  4. fen
  5. peat bog
  6. morass
  7. quagmire
  8. slough
  9. lowland
  10. marshland
  11. muskeg
  12. quag
  13. swampland
  14. wetland
  15. baygall
  16. fenland
  17. marais
Antonyms:
  1. dry ground
To interfere with the progress of.
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. bog-down
  2. Also used with down: encumber
  3. hinder
  4. backwater
  5. cess
  6. everglade
  7. fen
  8. hold back
  9. gog
  10. marsh
  11. mire
  12. moor
  13. morass
  14. impede
  15. ooze
  16. quag
  17. quagmire
  18. sink
  19. obstruct
  20. slough
  21. slue
  22. sump
  23. swamp
  24. wetlands
Synonyms:
(Adjective)
  1. quaggy

Words Related to Bog

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Bog Sentence Examples

  • The Bog of Allen has a general elevation of 250 ft.

  • Towards Charlemont there is much reclaimable bog resting on a limestone substratum.

  • Bog ores were mined until about 1840; since that date they have had no market.

  • The railway ultimately was made to float on the bog.

  • But presently the traveller's horse sank in up to the girths, and he observed to the boy, "I thought you said that this bog had a hard bottom."

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