Synonyms of rabbit hole

rabbit hole

noun

as in dilemma

a difficult, puzzling, or embarrassing situation from which there is no easy escape

shoreline residents are finding themselves helplessly falling down a rabbit hole in their Sisyphean efforts to halt beach erosion

Synonyms & Similar Words

• dilemma
• predicament
• pickle
• hole
• bind
• swamp
• corner
• kettle of fish
• jam
• difficulty
• box
• sticky wicket
• impasse
• hot water
• spot
• quagmire
• fix
• crisis
• jackpot
• mire
• plight
• rattrap
• node
• soup
• catch-22
• trouble
• emergency
• pinch
• quandary
• halt
• deadlock
• standstill
• clutch
• scrape
• strait
• crossroad
• stalemate
• exigency
• juncture
• logjam

Examples of rabbit hole in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Still, the paper authors say the findings underscore a more fundamental point: facts and reason, when delivered properly can pull some people out of their conspiratorial rabbit holes. —Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 12 Sep. 2024

Roughly half of Americans subscribe to to some sort of conspiracy theory, and their fellow humans haven’t had much success coaxing them out of their rabbit holes. —Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2024

What sent me down this rabbit hole was stumbling on a 10-year-old video of a robot designed after a Velociraptor dinosaur by the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). —New Atlas, 28 Sep. 2024

If medical tourism isn’t exactly in your budget, learning about healing modalities from other cultures or medicine traditions can potentially open the way forward for you, or at the very least, lead you to some interesting rabbit holes. —Steph Koyfman, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Sep. 2024