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 hong^6-2)

  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

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