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61dilemma — refers to a situation involving two courses of action, both unsatisfactory. A person who cannot decide what he wants for breakfast is not in a dilemma …
62dilemma — See: horns of a dilemma …
63dilemma — n British a fight. An item of black street talk used especially by males, recorded in 2003. It often occurs in the form mad dilemma …
64dilemma — [dɪ lɛmə, dʌɪ ] noun 1》 a situation in which a difficult choice has to be made between two or more alternatives. ↘informal a difficult situation or problem. 2》 Logic an argument forcing an opponent to choose either of two unfavourable… …
65dilemma — noun Syn: quandary, predicament, catch 22, vicious circle, plight, conflict; informal fix, tight spot/corner; (in a dilemma) between the devil and the deep blue sea, between a rock and a hard place …
66dilemma — di•lem•ma [[t]dɪˈlɛm ə[/t]] n. pl. mas 1) a situation requiring a choice between equally undesirable alternatives 2) any perplexing situation or problem 3) pho a form of syllogism in which the major premise is formed of two or more conditional… …
67Horns of a dilemma — Dilemma Di*lem ma, n. [L. dilemma, Gr. ?; di = di s twice + ? to take. See {Lemma}.] 1. (Logic) An argument which presents an antagonist with two or more alternatives, but is equally conclusive against him, whichever alternative he chooses. [1913 …
68dilemma — noun /daɪˈlɛmə,dɪˈlɛmə/ a) A circumstance in which a choice must be made between two or more alternatives that seem equally undesirable. b) (disputed) A difficult circumstance or problem. Syn: bind, fix, p …
69dilemma — masking d. a problem encountered in establishing the bone conduction thresholds in severe bilateral conductive hearing loss, in which the amount of masking of the nontest ear exceeds the interaural attenuation so that enough masking is too much… …
70dilemma — Synonyms and related words: Aristotelian sorites, Goclenian sorites, Gordian knot, Scylla and Charybdis, baffle, bafflement, bewilderment, bind, bother, box, catch 22, categorical syllogism, choice of Hercules, confoundment, confusion, corner,… …
