Search Result for "snake pit":
Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. any place of pain and turmoil;
- Example: "the hell of battle"
- Example: "the inferno of the engine room"
- Example: "when you're alone Christmas is the pits";
[syn: hell, hell on earth, hellhole, snake pit, the pits, inferno]

2. pejorative terms for an insane asylum;
[syn: Bedlam, booby hatch, crazy house, cuckoo's nest, funny farm, funny house, loony bin, madhouse, nut house, nuthouse, sanatorium, snake pit]



WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

snake pit
    n 1: any place of pain and turmoil; "the hell of battle"; "the
         inferno of the engine room"; "when you're alone Christmas
         is the pits"; [syn: hell, hell on earth, hellhole,
         snake pit, the pits, inferno]
    2: pejorative terms for an insane asylum [syn: Bedlam, booby
       hatch, crazy house, cuckoo's nest, funny farm, funny
       house, loony bin, madhouse, nut house, nuthouse,
       sanatorium, snake pit]


Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

21 Moby Thesaurus words for "snake pit":
   Chinese puzzle, Gordian knot, Rube Goldberg contraption,
   can of worms, complex, jungle, knot, labyrinth, maze, meander,
   mesh, mess, perplex, ravel, snafu, snarl, tangle, tangled skein,
   webwork, wheels within wheels, wilderness