I am in a terrible dilemma.
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Dilemma
//daɪˈlɛmə//
Synonyms for "dilemma" (124 found)
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Related words (62)
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19 entriesBuridan's assbetween Scylla and Charybdisbetween a rock and a hard placebetween the devil and the deep blue seacatch-22conundrumdamned if one does and damned if one doesn'tdoomed if you do, doomed if you don'thave the wolf by the earin a dilemmalemmalose-loseno-win situationpentalemmapolylemmapredicament
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15 entrieshas context
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Translations
79 translations across 44 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- δίλημμα noun (circumstance in which a choice must be made between two alternatives)
Arabic
3 entries- مُعْضِلَة noun (circumstance in which a choice must be made between two alternatives)
- مُعْضِلَة noun (in logic)
- مِحْنَة noun (difficult circumstance)
Armenian
2 entries- դիլեմա noun (circumstance in which a choice must be made between two alternatives)
- երկընտրանք noun (circumstance in which a choice must be made between two alternatives)
Belarusian
1 entries- дыле́ма noun (circumstance in which a choice must be made between two alternatives)
Bulgarian
2 entries- диле́ма noun (circumstance in which a choice must be made between two alternatives)
- или-или noun (circumstance in which a choice must be made between two alternatives)
Catalan
2 entries- dilema noun (circumstance in which a choice must be made between two alternatives)
- dilema noun (difficult circumstance)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 二難推理 /二难推理 noun (in logic)
- 兩難 /两难 noun (circumstance in which a choice must be made between two alternatives)
- 困境 noun (circumstance in which a choice must be made between two alternatives)
- 困境 noun (difficult circumstance)
Czech
1 entries- dilema noun (circumstance in which a choice must be made between two alternatives)
Dutch
1 entries- dilemma noun (circumstance in which a choice must be made between two alternatives)
Esperanto
3 entries- dilemo noun (circumstance in which a choice must be made between two alternatives)
- dilemo noun (difficult circumstance)
- dilemo noun (in logic)
Finnish
4 entries- dilemma noun (circumstance in which a choice must be made between two alternatives)
- dilemma noun (difficult circumstance)
- dilemma noun (in logic)
- pulma noun (difficult circumstance)
French
1 entries- dilemme noun (circumstance in which a choice must be made between two alternatives)
Galician
3 entries- dilema noun (circumstance in which a choice must be made between two alternatives)
- dilema noun (difficult circumstance)
- dilema noun (in logic)
Georgian
2 entries- დილემა noun (circumstance in which a choice must be made between two alternatives)
- დილემა noun (difficult circumstance)
German
1 entries- Dilemma noun (circumstance in which a choice must be made between two alternatives)
Greek
1 entries- δίλημμα noun (circumstance in which a choice must be made between two alternatives)
Hebrew
3 entries- דילמה noun (circumstance in which a choice must be made between two alternatives)
- דילמה noun (difficult circumstance)
- דילמה noun (in logic)
Hindi
1 entries- दुविधा noun (circumstance in which a choice must be made between two alternatives)
Hungarian
1 entries- dilemma noun (circumstance in which a choice must be made between two alternatives)
Icelandic
4 entries- valkreppa noun (circumstance in which a choice must be made between two alternatives)
- valtvenna noun (circumstance in which a choice must be made between two alternatives)
- valþröng noun (circumstance in which a choice must be made between two alternatives)
- ógöngur (sbr. ógöngurök, ógöngurökfærsla) noun (circumstance in which a choice must be made between two alternatives)
Ido
1 entries- dilemo noun (circumstance in which a choice must be made between two alternatives)
Irish
1 entries- aincheist noun (circumstance in which a choice must be made between two alternatives)
Italian
2 entries- dilemma noun (circumstance in which a choice must be made between two alternatives)
- dilemma noun (difficult circumstance)
Japanese
1 entries- ジレンマ noun (circumstance in which a choice must be made between two alternatives)
Korean
1 entries- 딜레마 noun (circumstance in which a choice must be made between two alternatives)
Latin
1 entries- dilemma noun (circumstance in which a choice must be made between two alternatives)
Macedonian
1 entries- дилема noun (circumstance in which a choice must be made between two alternatives)
Malayalam
1 entries- ധർമ്മസങ്കടം noun (circumstance in which a choice must be made between two alternatives)
Persian
2 entries- دوراهی noun (circumstance in which a choice must be made between two alternatives)
- مشکل noun (difficult circumstance)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- Kjlam noun (difficult circumstance)
Polish
3 entries- dylemat noun (circumstance in which a choice must be made between two alternatives)
- dylemat noun (difficult circumstance)
- dylemat noun (in logic)
Portuguese
3 entries- dilema noun (circumstance in which a choice must be made between two alternatives)
- dilema noun (difficult circumstance)
- dilema noun (in logic)
Romanian
1 entries- dilemă noun (circumstance in which a choice must be made between two alternatives)
Russian
2 entries- диле́мма noun (circumstance in which a choice must be made between two alternatives)
- диле́мма noun (difficult circumstance)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- aincheist noun (circumstance in which a choice must be made between two alternatives)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- dilema noun (circumstance in which a choice must be made between two alternatives)
- дилема noun (circumstance in which a choice must be made between two alternatives)
Slovak
1 entries- dilema noun (circumstance in which a choice must be made between two alternatives)
Spanish
4 entries- dilema noun (circumstance in which a choice must be made between two alternatives)
- dilema noun (difficult circumstance)
- dilema noun (in logic)
- disyuntiva noun (circumstance in which a choice must be made between two alternatives)
Swedish
1 entries- dilemma noun (circumstance in which a choice must be made between two alternatives)
Tagalog
1 entries- awampili noun (in logic)
Telugu
1 entries- విచికిత్స noun (circumstance in which a choice must be made between two alternatives)
Turkish
2 entries- dilemma noun (circumstance in which a choice must be made between two alternatives)
- ikilem noun (circumstance in which a choice must be made between two alternatives)
Ukrainian
1 entries- диле́ма noun (circumstance in which a choice must be made between two alternatives)
Volapük
1 entries- diläm noun (circumstance in which a choice must be made between two alternatives)
Sample sentences
11 total sentences available.
Never in his life had he encountered such a dilemma.
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Tom faces a dilemma.
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This is the dilemma.
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