Entry Word: dilemma

Function: noun

Meaning: a situation in which one has to choose between two or more equally unsatisfactory choices <they were faced with a dilemma: either they could spend the night out in the cold or they could walk back into their house and face their father>

Synonyms quandary

Related Words deadlock, halt, impasse, quagmire, stalemate, standoff; knot, problem; difficulty, fix, hole, jam, pickle, pinch, plight, predicament, spot

Near Antonyms breeze, cinch, duck soup, snap