Conundrum Definition

kə-nŭndrəm

conundrums

noun

conundrums

A riddle whose answer contains a pun (Ex.: What's the difference between a jeweler and a jailer? One sells watches and the other watches cells.)

Webster's New World

A riddle in which a fanciful question is answered by a pun.

American Heritage

Any puzzling question or problem.

Webster's New World

The definition of conundrum is a situation where there is no clear right answer or no good solution.

An example of a conundrum is a challenging riddle to which you can't figure out the answer.

YourDictionary

A difficult choice or decision that must be made.

Wiktionary

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Other Word Forms of Conundrum

Singular:

conundrum

Plural:

conundra, conundrums

A word of unknown origin, probably coined in burlesque imitation of scholastic Latin, as "hocus-pocus" or "panjandrum".

From Wiktionary
Origin unknown

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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