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Synonyms for limbo

Grammar : Noun
Spell : lim-boh
Phonetic Transcription : ˈlɪm boʊ

Définition of limbo

Origin :
  • "region supposed to exist on the border of Hell" reserved for pre-Christian saints (Limbus patrum) and unbaptized infants (Limbus infantum);" c.1300, from Latin limbo, ablative of limbus "edge, border" (see limb (2)). It emerged from Latin in the ablative form from frequent use in phrases such as in limbo (patrum), etc. Figurative sense of "condition of neglect or oblivion" is from 1640s.
  • noun state of uncertainty
Example sentences :
  • The button of soot has vanished into the limbo of superseded inventions.
  • Extract from : « Heroes of the Telegraph » by J. Munro
  • Duncan's hand airily wafted the remark into the limbo of the negligible.
  • Extract from : « The Fortune Hunter » by Louis Joseph Vance
  • But we forget that our hero, like Tristram Shandy, is still in the limbo of non-existence.
  • Extract from : « Benjamin Franklin » by Paul Elmer More
  • As to leave, it has again vanished into the limbo of futurity.
  • Extract from : « War Letters of a Public-School Boy » by Paul Jones.
  • Alas, that is not possible, for it must remain forever in the limbo of tradition.
  • Extract from : « Adventures in the Arts » by Marsden Hartley
  • Not flippantly, but reverently, leave your misdeeds in a limbo where they may not rise to haunt you.
  • Extract from : « The Untroubled Mind » by Herbert J. Hall
  • But the fellow while in limbo sawed off the chain and ball from his leg and escaped.
  • Extract from : « Three Years on the Plains » by Edmund B. Tuttle
  • But they left it in limbo, they reverenced it, and they passed by.
  • Extract from : « A Preface to Politics » by Walter Lippmann
  • The reference is probably to Virgil, and to his position in Limbo.
  • Extract from : « Confessions of a Book-Lover » by Maurice Francis Egan
  • The things which pass into the limbo of forgetfulness are never lost to us.
  • Extract from : « Second Sight » by Sepharial

Antonyms for limbo

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