Dilemma - definition, pronunciation, transcription
Amer.
|dɪˈlemə|
Brit.
|dɪˈlemə|
noun
- state of uncertainty or perplexity especially as requiring a choice between equally unfavorable options (syn: quandary)
Extra examples
The country's decision to go to war has caused a major dilemma for its allies.
We're facing a terrible dilemma.
I don't know what to do; it's a real dilemma.
If we accept that certain babies should be allowed to die, we place doctors in a moral dilemma.
He was in a dilemma, and could see no way out.
...faced with the perennially insolvable dilemma of having to choose between career and family...
The prisoner's dilemma will induce people to behave in opportunistic ways.
An enormous dilemma faces us
Word forms
noun
singular: dilemma
plural: dilemmas
singular: dilemma
plural: dilemmas
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