Associations to the word «Dilemma»
Noun
- Nelly
- Resolve
- Rowland
- Ethics
- Gunnar
- Prisoner
- Rationality
- Paradox
- Innovator
- Ethic
- Fallacy
- Predicament
- Tat
- Horn
- Modernity
- Moral
- Contradiction
- Pose
- Tit
- Solution
- Morality
- Legal
- Arjuna
- Equilibrium
- Cooperation
- Perplexity
- Globalization
- Democracy
- Facing
- Conte
- Impossibility
- Malay
- Choice
- Hedgehog
- Realism
- Burglar
- Ambiguity
- Respondent
- Liberalism
- Conflict
- Alternative
- Heinz
- Fairness
- Uncertainty
- Theorist
- Nash
- Protagonist
- Genetic
- Bargaining
- Socrates
- Arising
- Puritan
- Personal
- Defect
- Nationalist
- Shaw
- Abortion
- Social
- Moderate
- Credibility
Adjective
Wiktionary
DILEMMA, noun. A circumstance in which a choice must be made between two or more alternatives that seem equally undesirable.
DILEMMA, noun. A difficult circumstance or problem.
DILEMMA, noun. (logic) A type of syllogism of the form "if A is true then B is true; if C is true then D is true; either A or C is true; therefore either B or D is true".
DILEMMA, noun. (rhetoric) Offering to an opponent a choice between two (equally unfavorable) alternatives.
Dictionary definition
DILEMMA, noun. State of uncertainty or perplexity especially as requiring a choice between equally unfavorable options.
Wise words
Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary
meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the
truants in custody and bring them back to their right
senses.