dilemmas
- 1Plural of dilemma.
The new manager inherited several thorny dilemmas from her predecessor.
Ethical dilemmas often pit personal loyalty against professional duty.
Note
A regular -s plural that carries every meaning of the singular with it. Most often it counts hard choices between unwelcome options, as in ethical or moral dilemmas, and looser usage stretches it to cover any knotty problems. Logicians and rhetoricians use the same plural for their own dilemmas: syllogisms that force an either-or conclusion, and arguments that leave an opponent two equally bad alternatives.
dilemmas is a form of dilemma
dilemma, noun: A situation requiring a choice between two or more options that all seem equally undesirable. Full entry
- Spelling
- dilemma → dilemmas: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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