Usually means: Dilemma involving difficult choice, uncertainty.
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  2. quandary: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. quandary: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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  9. quandary: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
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  12. Quandary, quandary: Dictionary.com
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  15. Quandary: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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  17. quandary: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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  20. quandary: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
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  25. Quandary: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

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  1. quandary, quandary: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
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Definitions from Wiktionary (quandary)

▸ noun:  A state of not knowing what to decide; a state of difficulty or perplexity; a state of uncertainty, hesitation or puzzlement.
▸ noun:  A dilemma, a difficult decision or choice.

Similar:
predicament, plight, dilemma, puzzlement, ambivalence, perplexity, perplexion, questionableness, puzzle, perplexment, more...

Opposite:
dilemma, predicament

Types:
ethical quandary, moral quandary, financial quandary, personal quandary, social quandary, political quandary, more...

Phrases:
Quandary Peak, in a quandary, be in a quandary, opposite of quandary, more...

Adjectives:
moral, same, such, real, great, terrible, similar, serious, ethical, sad, triple


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Similar:
predicament, plight, dilemma, puzzlement, ambivalence, perplexity, perplexion, questionableness, puzzle, perplexment, more...

Opposite:
dilemma, predicament

Types:
ethical quandary, moral quandary, financial quandary, personal quandary, social quandary, political quandary, more...

Phrases:
Quandary Peak, in a quandary, be in a quandary, opposite of quandary, more...

Adjectives:
moral, same, such, real, great, terrible, similar, serious, ethical, sad, triple



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