Usually means: Choice between two difficult options.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. dilemma: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. dilemma: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dilemma: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dilemma: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dilemma: Vocabulary.com
  6. Dilemma, dilemma: Wordnik
  7. dilemma: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. dilemma: Wiktionary
  9. dilemma: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. dilemma: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. dilemma: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Dilemma, dilemma: Dictionary.com
  13. dilemma: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. dilemma: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Dilemma (disambiguation), Dilemma (novel), Dilemma (song), Dilemma, The Dilemma (film), The Dilemma: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Dilemma: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. dilemma: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. dilemma: Rhymezone
  19. Dilemma (nt), dilemma, dilemma, dilemma (het): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. dilemma: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. dilemma: Free Dictionary
  22. dilemma: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. dilemma: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. dilemma: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. dilemma: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  26. Dilemma: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. dilemma: Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names
  2. Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric (No longer online)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dilemma: Management Dictionary
  2. dilemma: Legal dictionary
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dilemma: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Ethical Terms (No longer online)
  2. dilemma: Idioms

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dilemma: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. dilemma: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  3. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

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  1. dilemma: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A circumstance in which a choice must be made between two or more alternatives that seem equally undesirable.
noun:  A difficult circumstance or problem.
noun:  (logic) A type of syllogism of the form "if A is true then B is true; if C is true then D is true; either A or C is true; therefore either B or D is true".
noun:  (rhetoric) Offering to an opponent a choice between two (equally unfavorable) alternatives.

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