limbo
/ˈlɪmboʊ/
noun
- A state of being uncertain, forgotten, or stuck between two stages or decisions.
- After the company closed, the employees were left in limbo about their jobs.
- The project is in limbo until we get approval from the manager.
- My application is in limbo while the committee reviews it.
- A West Indian dance in which dancers bend backward and pass under a low horizontal bar without touching it.
- At the party, everyone tried to do the limbo under the stick.
- The limbo is a fun dance that tests your flexibility.
- She won the limbo contest by going lower than anyone else.
- (in some Christian traditions) A place or state where souls of unbaptized infants or righteous people who died before Christ are believed to exist, but not in heaven or hell.
- The idea of limbo is not officially part of modern Catholic doctrine.
- Some people imagine limbo as a peaceful but neutral afterlife.
- Medieval theologians debated the concept of limbo for unbaptized babies.
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