What is another word for stalemate?

Synonyms for stalemate
ˈsteɪlˌmeɪtstale·mate

This thesaurus page includes all potential synonyms, words with the same meaning and similar terms for the word stalemate.

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. deadlock, dead end, impasse, stalemate, standstillnoun

    a situation in which no progress can be made or no advancement is possible

    "reached an impasse on the negotiations"

    Synonyms:
    standstill, cul, dead-end street, cul de sac, stand, deadlock, blind alley, dead end, tie-up, impasse

  2. stalemateverb

    drawing position in chess: any of a player's possible moves would place his king in check

    Synonyms:
    deadlock, impasse, dead end, standstill

  3. stalemateverb

    subject to a stalemate

Matched Categories

How to pronounce stalemate?

How to say stalemate in sign language?

Words popularity by usage frequency

rankingword
#1778stand
#5908neutral
#13532dilemma
#21749cul
#24236paralysis
#28830deadlock
#31131standoff
#37165rut
#40026stagnation
#41226impasse
#41436stillness
#45060standstill
#47204stalling
#48196gridlock
#48423stalemate
#91669logjam

How to use stalemate in a sentence?

  1. Timothy Lytton:

    Court opinions like this are not likely to move legislatures, the federal government has been at a stalemate over gun control legislation for well over a decade. If Sandy Hook could not move Congress to action, nothing is likely to.

  2. Matt Duchene:

    Were so evenly matched, I find, with the way we both play and theres not much room out there. Theres no one really taking over the game, its such a stalemate out there and Im not surprised it went to overtime back-to-back games.

  3. Stephen Innes:

    With the Mexican stalemate averted and no harmful shockwaves from this weekend G-20 meeting ... oil could trade favorably as WTI and Brent will continue to track the broader risk environment high.

  4. Deputy Finance Minister Joerg Kukies:

    The question that I have now, and this really goes to the core: must the EU - in light of the stalemate of tax harmonization - give up its unanimity principle in tax policy, at least in some areas.

  5. Liu Youbin:

    Weather conditions last month in Beijing were the worst over the past six years with slow wind, little rain and high temperatures, but average pollution readings were able to stay at same level as the past five years, the air pollution campaign has entered a stage of stalemate, as Chairman Mao described in his famous book 'On Protracted War'... The efforts we made have sometimes been offset by unfavorable weather, and it will take time for us to slip the leash of weather conditions to win the war.


Translations for stalemate

From our Multilingual Translation Dictionary

Get even more translations for stalemate »

Translation

Find a translation for the stalemate synonym in other languages:

Select another language:

  • - Select -
  • 简体中文 (Chinese - Simplified)
  • 繁體中文 (Chinese - Traditional)
  • Español (Spanish)
  • Esperanto (Esperanto)
  • 日本語 (Japanese)
  • Português (Portuguese)
  • Deutsch (German)
  • العربية (Arabic)
  • Français (French)
  • Русский (Russian)
  • ಕನ್ನಡ (Kannada)
  • 한국어 (Korean)
  • עברית (Hebrew)
  • Gaeilge (Irish)
  • Українська (Ukrainian)
  • اردو (Urdu)
  • Magyar (Hungarian)
  • मानक हिन्दी (Hindi)
  • Indonesia (Indonesian)
  • Italiano (Italian)
  • தமிழ் (Tamil)
  • Türkçe (Turkish)
  • తెలుగు (Telugu)
  • ภาษาไทย (Thai)
  • Tiếng Việt (Vietnamese)
  • Čeština (Czech)
  • Polski (Polish)
  • Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian)
  • Românește (Romanian)
  • Nederlands (Dutch)
  • Ελληνικά (Greek)
  • Latinum (Latin)
  • Svenska (Swedish)
  • Dansk (Danish)
  • Suomi (Finnish)
  • فارسی (Persian)
  • ייִדיש (Yiddish)
  • հայերեն (Armenian)
  • Norsk (Norwegian)
  • English (English)

Citation

Use the citation below to add these synonyms to your bibliography:

Style:MLAChicagoAPA

"stalemate." Synonyms.com. STANDS4 LLC, 2024. Web. 28 Mar. 2024. <https://www.synonyms.com/synonym/stalemate>.

Discuss these stalemate synonyms with the community:

0 Comments

    Are we missing a good synonym for stalemate?

    Free, no signup required:

    Add to Chrome

    Get instant synonyms for any word that hits you anywhere on the web!

    Free, no signup required:

    Add to Firefox

    Get instant synonyms for any word that hits you anywhere on the web!

    Browse Synonyms.com

    Quiz

    Are you a human thesaurus?

    »
    Which of the following words is not a synonym of the others?
    A deific
    B lethal
    C pernicious
    D deathly

    Nearby & related entries:

    Alternative searches for stalemate: