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dilemma

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of dilemma

1 a situation in which one has to choose between two or more equally unsatisfactory choices

  • faced with a dilemma of whether to risk continuing to drive in the dangerous storm or to give up searching for the lost dog and hope he survived
Synonyms of dilemma

catch-22, double bind, quandary
Words Related to dilemma

deadlock, impasse, quagmire, stalemate, standoff

knot, problem

bind, difficulty, fix, hole, jam, pickle, pinch, plight, predicament, spot
Near Antonyms of dilemma

breeze, cinch, duck soup, snap

2 a difficult, puzzling, or embarrassing situation from which there is no easy escape

  • with home prices in a free fall, sellers were in a terrible dilemma
Synonyms of dilemma

bind, box, catch-22, corner, fix, hole, impasse, jackpot [chiefly West], jam, mire, pickle, predicament, quagmire, rabbit hole, rattrap, spot, sticky wicket, swamp
Words Related to dilemma

difficulty, node

hot water, soup

pinch, plight, quandary, scrape, trouble

deadlock, halt, logjam, stalemate, standstill

clutch, crisis, crossroad, emergency, exigency, juncture, strait
Phrases Synonymous with dilemma

kettle of fish

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