Conundrum
[kə'nʌndrəm]
Definition
(n.) 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.
(n.) A question to which only a conjectural answer can be made.
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Definition
n. a sort of riddle containing some odd or fanciful resemblance between things quite unlike: any puzzling question.
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Examples
- This little conundrum came by the first post, and he was to follow by the next train. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- A conundrum of Mr. Weston's shall clear him and his next neighbour. Jane Austen. Emma.
- How will a conundrum reckon? Jane Austen. Emma.
- I believe the theme of this incomprehensible conundrum was the moon. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- But to enable me to do so, I must first have found out the troublesome conundrum long abandoned. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I am making a conundrum. Jane Austen. Emma.
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