The question of free will is a prickly conundrum to religion.
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Conundrum
//kəˈnʌn.dɹəm//
Synonyms for "conundrum" (21 found)
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Closest matches (5)
Noun(3 words)
Strong matches (6)
Related words (10)
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Translations
91 translations across 32 languages.
Armenian
3 entries- առեղծված noun (difficult question or riddle)
- գլուխկոտրուկ noun (difficult question or riddle)
- հանելուկ noun (difficult question or riddle)
Azerbaijani
2 entries- başsındıran noun (difficult question or riddle)
- dilemma noun (difficult choice or decision)
Bashkir
2 entries- башватҡыс noun (difficult question or riddle)
- йомаҡ noun (difficult question or riddle)
Bulgarian
3 entries- гатанка noun (difficult question or riddle)
- дилема noun (difficult choice or decision)
- загадка noun (difficult question or riddle)
Catalan
2 entries- dilema noun (difficult choice or decision)
- endevinalla noun (difficult question or riddle)
Czech
4 entries- dilema noun (difficult choice or decision)
- hlavolam noun (difficult question or riddle)
- hádanka noun (difficult question or riddle)
- rébus noun (difficult question or riddle)
Danish
3 entries- gåde noun (difficult question or riddle)
- hovedbrud noun (difficult choice or decision)
- ordgåde noun (difficult question or riddle)
Dutch
3 entries- dilemma noun (difficult choice or decision)
- hersenbreker noun (difficult question or riddle)
- raadsel noun (difficult question or riddle)
Esperanto
1 entries- enigmo noun (difficult question or riddle)
Finnish
4 entries- arvoitus noun (difficult question or riddle)
- kompa noun (difficult question or riddle)
- kompakysymys noun (difficult question or riddle)
- pulma noun (difficult choice or decision)
French
4 entries- casse-tête noun (difficult question or riddle)
- dilemme noun (difficult choice or decision)
- problème noun (difficult question or riddle)
- énigme noun (difficult question or riddle)
Galician
3 entries- adiviña noun (difficult question or riddle)
- deviñanza noun (difficult question or riddle)
- dilema noun (difficult choice or decision)
Georgian
1 entries- თავსატეხი noun (difficult choice or decision)
German
4 entries- Dilemma noun (difficult choice or decision)
- Entscheidungsfrage noun (difficult choice or decision)
- Kopfzerbrecher noun (difficult question or riddle)
- Qual der Wahl noun (difficult choice or decision)
Greek
4 entries- αίνιγμα noun (difficult question or riddle)
- γρίφος noun (difficult question or riddle)
- δίλημμα noun (difficult choice or decision)
- σπαζοκεφαλιά noun (difficult question or riddle)
Hungarian
3 entries- dilemma noun (difficult choice or decision)
- rejtvény noun (difficult question or riddle)
- találós kérdés noun (difficult question or riddle)
Italian
4 entries- dilemma noun (difficult choice or decision)
- enigma noun (difficult question or riddle)
- enigma noun (difficult choice or decision)
- indovinello noun (difficult question or riddle)
Macedonian
4 entries- га́танка noun (difficult question or riddle)
- диле́ма noun (difficult choice or decision)
- за́гатка noun (difficult question or riddle)
- недоу́мица noun (difficult choice or decision)
Middle English
1 entries- probleme noun (difficult question or riddle)
Norwegian
1 entries- gåte noun (difficult question or riddle)
Polish
2 entries- dylemat noun (difficult choice or decision)
- zagadka noun (difficult question or riddle)
Portuguese
2 entries- adivinha noun (difficult question or riddle)
- dilema noun (difficult choice or decision)
Romanian
1 entries- dilemă noun (difficult choice or decision)
Russian
3 entries- головоло́мка noun (difficult question or riddle)
- диле́мма noun (difficult choice or decision)
- зага́дка noun (difficult question or riddle)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- zavrzlama noun (difficult question or riddle)
Sicilian
4 entries- dilimma noun (difficult choice or decision)
- dubbiu noun (difficult choice or decision)
- nimma noun (difficult question or riddle)
- nimma noun (difficult choice or decision)
Slovak
3 entries- hlavolam noun (difficult question or riddle)
- hádanka noun (difficult question or riddle)
- problém noun (difficult question or riddle)
Spanish
4 entries- acertijo noun (difficult question or riddle)
- adivinanza noun (difficult question or riddle)
- dilema noun (difficult choice or decision)
- enigma noun (difficult choice or decision)
Swedish
1 entries- dilemma noun (difficult choice or decision)
Tagalog
1 entries- paisip noun (difficult question or riddle)
Turkish
2 entries- bilmece noun (difficult question or riddle)
- muamma noun (difficult question or riddle)
Vietnamese
1 entries- nan đề noun (difficult question or riddle)
Sample sentences
9 total sentences available.
Tom faces a conundrum.
Source: tatoeba (1690510)
Julia was supposed to help me with my project, but her absence has left me in quite the conundrum.
Source: tatoeba (8681635)
Even the leading scientists of the day were left baffled by the conundrum.
Source: tatoeba (8681638)
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