00038573-n 'a course of action that is unproductive and offers no hope of improvement';
 
English blind alley , dead end , cul-de-sac
Japanese 袋小路
Definitions
Indonesian
(Kiasan) tindakan yang tidak produktif dan tidak memberikan harapan perbaikan
Japanese
非生産的で改善の見込みのない行動
すべての手がかりが警察を袋小路に導いた; これまで、我々がいたあらゆる道は、袋小路であると判明した
English
a course of action that is unproductive and offers no hope of improvement
all the clues led the police into blind alleys; so far every road that we've been down has turned out to be a blind alley
Relations
Hypernym: course
Domain–Usage: trope
Semantic Field: actn
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SUMO: ⊂ IntentionalProcess

TempoWN: (Past: 0.000; Present: 0.002; Future: 0.996)

SentiWN: (+0.00 -0.50) MLSentiCon: (+0.25 -0.38)


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