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conundrum
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ King remains a conundrum , a man of both major strengths and serious character flaws. ▪ The administration is facing a familiar conundrum . EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ It was the moral conundrum that defined our home. ▪ Skymaster ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, Oxford University slang for "pedant," also "whim," etc., later (1790) "riddle, puzzle." Also spelled quonundrum . The sort of ponderous pseudo-Latin word that was once the height of humor in learned circles.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a difficult problem [syn: riddle , enigma , brain-teaser ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A difficult question or riddle, especially one using a play on words in the answer. 2 A difficult choice or decision that must be made.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Conundrum \Co*nun"drum\, n. [Origin unknown.] A kind of riddle based upon some fanciful or fantastic resemblance between things quite unlike; a puzzling question, of which the answer is or involves a pun. Or pun ambiguous, or conundrum quaint. --J. Philips. ...
Usage examples of conundrum.
Such creative responsibility is, in any case, being thrust upon us -- as both the challenge of the global environment and the conundrums of bioethics testify.
In short, Willi Reinecke was a conundrum and that, more than any other thing, was what drew August close to him.
Small conundrums have always worried him like a sandspur stuck to his sock.
Beside the sea, at its windiest, his irritation was at its high the conundrum of the crashing surf not only made it impossible to concentrat on any signal he might normally have felt on the air, but in fact added to th cacophony that already was assaulting his sensitive skin.
This is certainly a very appealing proposal for avoiding the mathematical, physical, and logical conundrums of a universe that emanates from or collapses to an infinitely dense point.
The temperature and energy are high, but not infinite, since string theory has avoided the conundrums of an infinitely compressed zero-size starting point.
Such messengers are said to deliver their messages in obscure forms, and so he tries to remember all of the riddles and paradoxes and conundrums he has ever known: The way down is the way up.
For him the world was a great conundrum or a series of puzzle boxes and he a disinterested yet childishly sensitive and enthusiastic observer trying to unriddle them.
The necessity for talking what is known as 'shop,' which comes on all lawyers with the removal of the ladies, caused Chankery, a young and promising advocate, to propound an impersonal conundrum to his neighbour, whose name he did not know, for, seated as he permanently was in the background, Bustard had practically no name.
Escape was the tavern and entertainment was but to listen to the connivers with their conundrums, who suffering the same woes and telling and hearing stories of others' despairs, became anesthetised over their vessels of grog.
Already I am troubled by doubts, Iucounu might simply ignore my conundrums in favor of Panguire's Triumphant Displasms.
We took mugs of tea with us to the briefing room, Nosh still honking because Solid Shot had solved the conundrum on Blockbusters.
He might be crazy as a chronal conundrum, but his former mentor had an undeniable talent for showing up precisely where he was least wanted.
The old mysteries of why a man should take up the bass fiddle as a life work and where all the pins go are babes' conundrums compared with the one of why a human being should devote his years to the idiosyncrasies of bullets.
How I had failed to notice for two and a half days a 450-pound Bengal tiger in a lifeboat twenty-six feet long was a conundrum I would have to try to crack later, when I had more energy.