dead-ends
Streets without outlet
Dead-ends is the plural of dead-end, a street or passage closed at one end.
Figuratively, dead-ends are situations offering no further progress: His investigation kept running into dead-ends.
As a verb, dead-ends means reaches a point where no further progress is possible: The trail dead-ends at the cliff.
Situation without resolution
- roadblockObstruction across a road
- blockadeSealing off a place
- barricadeObstacle blocking a path
- barrierObstruction preventing passage
obstruction · bottleneck · gridlock · standstill · stalemate · logjam · brick wall · halt
Absence of flow or progress
- nowhereNot at any place
- frustrationDispleasure from blocked efforts
- fruitlessProducing no useful outcome
- pointlessLacking any purpose
hopeless · stuck · trapped · rut · quagmire · morass · inertia · plateau
impasse
Situation without resolution
barrier · obstruction · bottleneck · gridlock · standstill · stalemate · logjam · brick wall · halt · closure
stagnation
Absence of flow or progress
- nowhereNot at any place
- frustrationDispleasure from blocked efforts
- fruitlessProducing no useful outcome
pointless · hopeless · stuck · trapped · rut · quagmire · morass · inertia · plateau · doldrums
cul-de-sacs
Streets closed at one end
- blind alleysRoutes without throughways
- turnaroundsShifts in fortune
- closesBrings to an end
loops · pockets · enclaves · courts · lanes · circles · crescents · seclusion · quiet · residential
dead-endsthoroughfares
Public roads for transit
main roads · arterials · arterial roads · highways · connectors
dead-endsbreakthroughs
Sudden significant advances
solutions · opportunities · successes · turning points · new beginnings
dead-endsgateways
Points of entry
springboards · fertile ground · starting points · branching paths
end, death, ending, ended, deadlock, endings, dead, cul-de-sac, dead-end