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Definition of conundrum in English: conundrumnounPlural conundrums kəˈnʌndrəmkəˈnəndrəm 1A confusing and difficult problem or question. 复杂难题 one of the most difficult conundrums for the experts 对专家们来说最难的难题之一。 Example sentencesExamples - The only answer to that conundrum is to extend the period during which these costs are paid, perhaps by loans, a graduate tax or a combination of both.
- It was written during the collapse of the Weimar Republic and given its premiere in Dresden in the first months of the Third Reich, and almost everything about it consists of conundrums and paradoxes.
- The focus of discussion remains reframing the species problem as a linguistic conundrum.
- Fortunately for all of us, we may never have to find out the answer to that conundrum.
- When I awoke it was to the brilliant glowing answer to our little conundrum.
- I have not the answer to this conundrum that has become the bane of my existence.
- Children with recurrent abdominal pain present a difficult conundrum for doctors.
- It is a dreadful and continuing conundrum for which it seems nobody has a convincing answer.
- It's actually by focussing on this last point that investors can find the true answer to the conundrum.
- The last two days may have finally supplied an answer to that conundrum.
- The answer to this conundrum is buried in the depths of the article.
- The problem remains a conundrum to me, and I hope others can propose ways of dealing with it.
- Despite the richness of the premise, which asks a number of bio-ethical questions, there is little room for complex moral conundrums once the adrenaline starts pumping.
- The answer to this conundrum can be found at the heart of the society that he lived and work in.
- He is a German refugee, a Jewish scientist specialising in relativity and its conundrums; she is a doctor's daughter, musical, ambitious, idealistic.
- This problem is at the heart of several conundrums concerning time.
- Other than that, it can be something of a difficult ethical conundrum for somebody.
- As it happens, though, the law deals with these semantic conundrums the same way it deals with many (though not all) semantic conundrums: by ignoring them.
- The ensuing civil procedural history became a matter of prolonged legal debate on due process, but the religious coercion and its conundrums remained.
- For the environmentalists, there was no getting around this difficult conundrum.
Synonyms problem, difficult question, vexed question, difficulty, quandary, dilemma puzzle, enigma, mystery informal poser, facer, stumper, cruncher - 1.1 A question asked for amusement, typically one with a pun in its answer; a riddle.
（尤指答案中含双关语的）谜语 Example sentencesExamples - Fortunately the answer to the conundrum came into reach as we shuffled along.
- Puns - and conundrums and charades, for that matter - are word games with an audience - quite literally, entertainments.
- Later on he successfully puzzled over the riddles of some bawdy conundrums.
- The conundrum is simply stated, even though the answer is complex.
- She said two puzzles in particular - a racing problem and ballerina conundrum - had needed a great deal of logical legwork.
- Now there's a conundrum to puzzle a tired head to sleep.
- I can't seem to see a clear answer for this conundrum and therefore it sidetracks me and taunts me.
Synonyms riddle, puzzle, word game, anagram informal brain-teaser, brain-twister
OriginLate 16th century: of unknown origin, but first recorded in a work by Thomas Nashe, as a term of abuse for a crank or pedant, later coming to denote a whim or fancy, also a pun. Current senses date from the late 17th century. The origin of conundrum is itself a conundrum. In 1596 the English political writer Thomas Nashe used it as a term of abuse for a crank or pedant: ‘So will I…drive him to confess himself a Conundrum, who now thinks he hath learning enough to prove the salvation of Lucifer.’ The word later came to refer both to a whim and a pun. The current sense of ‘a riddle or puzzle’ dates from the late 17th century.
Definition of conundrum in US English: conundrumnounkəˈnəndrəmkəˈnəndrəm 1A confusing and difficult problem or question. 复杂难题 one of the most difficult conundrums for the experts 对专家们来说最难的难题之一。 Example sentencesExamples - The last two days may have finally supplied an answer to that conundrum.
- The answer to this conundrum can be found at the heart of the society that he lived and work in.
- As it happens, though, the law deals with these semantic conundrums the same way it deals with many (though not all) semantic conundrums: by ignoring them.
- This problem is at the heart of several conundrums concerning time.
- Fortunately for all of us, we may never have to find out the answer to that conundrum.
- I have not the answer to this conundrum that has become the bane of my existence.
- The answer to this conundrum is buried in the depths of the article.
- He is a German refugee, a Jewish scientist specialising in relativity and its conundrums; she is a doctor's daughter, musical, ambitious, idealistic.
- It is a dreadful and continuing conundrum for which it seems nobody has a convincing answer.
- When I awoke it was to the brilliant glowing answer to our little conundrum.
- Other than that, it can be something of a difficult ethical conundrum for somebody.
- The only answer to that conundrum is to extend the period during which these costs are paid, perhaps by loans, a graduate tax or a combination of both.
- The problem remains a conundrum to me, and I hope others can propose ways of dealing with it.
- The focus of discussion remains reframing the species problem as a linguistic conundrum.
- For the environmentalists, there was no getting around this difficult conundrum.
- Despite the richness of the premise, which asks a number of bio-ethical questions, there is little room for complex moral conundrums once the adrenaline starts pumping.
- The ensuing civil procedural history became a matter of prolonged legal debate on due process, but the religious coercion and its conundrums remained.
- It was written during the collapse of the Weimar Republic and given its premiere in Dresden in the first months of the Third Reich, and almost everything about it consists of conundrums and paradoxes.
- It's actually by focussing on this last point that investors can find the true answer to the conundrum.
- Children with recurrent abdominal pain present a difficult conundrum for doctors.
Synonyms problem, difficult question, vexed question, difficulty, quandary, dilemma - 1.1 A question asked for amusement, typically one with a pun in its answer; a riddle.
（尤指答案中含双关语的）谜语 Example sentencesExamples - I can't seem to see a clear answer for this conundrum and therefore it sidetracks me and taunts me.
- Puns - and conundrums and charades, for that matter - are word games with an audience - quite literally, entertainments.
- Fortunately the answer to the conundrum came into reach as we shuffled along.
- She said two puzzles in particular - a racing problem and ballerina conundrum - had needed a great deal of logical legwork.
- Later on he successfully puzzled over the riddles of some bawdy conundrums.
- Now there's a conundrum to puzzle a tired head to sleep.
- The conundrum is simply stated, even though the answer is complex.
Synonyms riddle, puzzle, word game, anagram
OriginLate 16th century: of unknown origin, but first recorded in a work by Thomas Nashe, as a term of abuse for a crank or pedant, later coming to denote a whim or fancy, also a pun. Current senses date from the late 17th century. |