What is another word for moor?

Pronunciation: [mˈʊ͡ə] (IPA)

Moor is a word that refers to a type of open, treeless landscape that is typically characterized by wetlands, heather, and low-growing shrubs. Synonyms for the word moor may include heath, bogland, marshland, swamp, fen, peatland, muskeg, and quagmire. Each of these terms describes different types of wetlands or low-lying landscapes that may be found in different parts of the world. For example, bogs are typically dominated by mosses and have acidic water, while marshes are slightly alkaline and often support reed beds and other wetland plants. By using synonyms for the word moor, writers can add variety and nuance to their descriptions of landscapes and create vivid, evocative imagery for their readers.

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What are the hypernyms for Moor?

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What are the opposite words for moor?

Moor is a word that denotes an open and frequently uncultivated land area. Antonyms of the word moor, which represent the opposite meaning, can be described in a number of ways. Firstly, developed areas, such as cities or towns can be seen as antonyms of moor, as they are densely populated and typically lack the natural vegetation and grand vistas found in moors. Secondly, cultivated land that is regularly tilled and prepared for agricultural purposes can also be considered an antonym for moor. Finally, environments that are enclosed or dominated by a large number of trees or thick vegetation, such as forests, can also be regarded as an opposite of moors.

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Usage examples for Moor

The features of the moor and the spirit of the Greek....
"The Furnace"
Rose Macaulay
Over the moor some twinkling light broke the black darkness and his candle blew in the wind.
"Fortitude"
Hugh Walpole
He leaned out of his window and tried to imagine, out of the darkness, the beloved moor-then he took his black bag and crept downstairs; it was striking half-past six as he came softly into the hall.
"Fortitude"
Hugh Walpole

Famous quotes with Moor

  • There came to port last Sunday night the queerest little craft, without an inch of rigging on; I looked and looked - and laughed. It seemed so curious that she should cross the unknown water, and moor herself within my room - my daughter! O my daughter!
    George Washington Cable
  • We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.
    Epictetus
  • For every living creature that succeeds in getting a footing in life there are thousands or millions that perish. There is an enormous random scattering for every seed that comes to life. This does not remind us of intelligent human design. "If a man in order to shoot a hare, were to discharge thousands of guns on a great moor in all possible directions; if in order to get into a locked room, he were to buy ten thousand casual keys, and try them all; if, in order to have a house, he were to build a town, and leave all the other houses to wind and weather - assuredly no one would call such proceedings purposeful and still less would anyone conjecture behind these proceedings a higher wisdom, unrevealed reasons, and superior prudence."
    J.W.N. Sullivan
  • Such a tendency has the slave-trade to debauch men's minds, and harden them to every feeling of humanity! For I will not suppose that the dealers in slaves are born worse than other men—No; it is the fatality of this mistaken avarice, that it corrupts the milk of human kindness and turns it into gall. And, had the pursuits of those men been different, they might have been as generous, as tender-hearted and just, as they are unfeeling, rapacious and cruel. Surely this traffic cannot be good, which spreads like a pestilence, and taints what it touches! which violates that first natural right of mankind, equality and independency, and gives one man a dominion over his fellows which God could never intend! For it raises the owner to a state as far above man as it depresses the slave below it; and, with all the presumption of human pride, sets a distinction between them, immeasurable in extent, and endless in duration! Yet how mistaken is the avarice even of the planters? Are slaves more useful by being thus humbled to the condition of brutes, than they would be if suffered to enjoy the privileges of men? The freedom which diffuses health and prosperity throughout Britain answers you—No. When you make men slaves you deprive them of half their virtue, you set them in your own conduct an example of fraud, rapine, and cruelty, and compel them to live with you in a state of war; and yet you complain that they are not honest or faithful! You stupify them with stripes, and think it necessary to keep them in a state of ignorance; and yet you assert that they are incapable of learning; that their minds are such a barren soil or moor, that culture would be lost on them; and that they come from a climate, where nature, though prodigal of her bounties in a degree unknown to yourselves, has left man alone scant and unfinished, and incapable of enjoying the treasures she has poured out for him!—An assertion at once impious and absurd. Why do you use those instruments of torture? Are they fit to be applied by one rational being to another? And are ye not struck with shame and mortification, to see the partakers of your nature reduced so low? But, above all, are there no dangers attending this mode of treatment? Are you not hourly in dread of an insurrection? [...] But by changing your conduct, and treating your slaves as men, every cause of fear would be banished. They would be faithful, honest, intelligent and vigorous; and peace, prosperity, and happiness, would attend you.
    Olaudah Equiano
  • I never saw a moor, I never saw the sea; Yet know I how the heather looks, And what a wave must be. I never spoke with God, Nor visited in heaven; Yet certain am I of the spot As if the chart were given.
    Emily Dickinson

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