Term: blind alley: (figurative) a course of action that is unproductive and offers no hope of improvement
Candidate hypernym: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples → 1
Candidate hypernym: championship: a competition at which a champion is chosen → 0
Candidate hypernym: angiotensin i: a physiologically inactive form of angiotensin that is the precursor to angiotensin II → 0
Candidate hypernym: parquet: a floor made of parquetry → 0
Candidate hypernym: winter heliotrope: European herb with vanilla-scented white-pink flowers → 0
Candidate hypernym: sucker: a shoot arising from a plant's roots → 0
Candidate hypernym: batfish: bottom-dweller of warm western Atlantic coastal waters having a flattened scaleless body that crawls about on fleshy pectoral and pelvic fins → 0
Candidate hypernym: close-order drill: (military) military drill of troops in standard marching (shoulder-to-shoulder) → 0
Candidate hypernym: trauma: an emotional wound or shock often having long-lasting effects → 0
Candidate hypernym: obscurity: an obscure and unimportant standing; not well known → 0
Candidate hypernym: dark: absence of light or illumination → 0