Usually means: Puzzle or problem, difficult, perplexing.
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  1. conundrum: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. conundrum: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. conundrum: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. conundrum: Collins English Dictionary
  5. conundrum: Vocabulary.com
  6. Conundrum, conundrum: Wordnik
  7. conundrum: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. conundrum: Wiktionary
  9. conundrum: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. conundrum: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. conundrum: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Conundrum, conundrum: Dictionary.com
  13. conundrum: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. conundrum: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Conundrum (Dallas), Conundrum (Lyons novel), Conundrum (song), Conundrum: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Conundrum: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. conundrum: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. conundrum: Rhymezone
  19. Conundrum: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. conundrum: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. conundrum: Free Dictionary
  22. conundrum: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. conundrum: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. conundrum: Encyclopedia

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  1. conundrum: Medical dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. conundrum: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Conundrum: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A difficult question or riddle, especially one using a play on words in the answer.
noun:  A difficult choice or decision that must be made.

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