Word Meanings - CONUNDRUM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. 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. Or pun ambiguous, or conundrum quaint. J. Philips. 2. A question to which

Additional info about word: CONUNDRUM

1. 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. Or pun ambiguous, or conundrum quaint. J. Philips. 2. A question to which only a conjectural answer can be made. Do you think life is long enough to let me speculate on conundrums like that W. Black.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CONUNDRUM)

• Puzzle
• Embarrassment
• be wilderment
• enigma
• confusion
• conundrum
• intricacy
• labyrinth

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of CONUNDRUM)

• Enlighten
• instruct
• illumine

Related words: (words related to CONUNDRUM)

• PUZZLEMENT
  The state of being puzzled; perplexity. Miss Mitford.
• PUZZLE
  1. Something which perplexes or embarrasses; especially, a toy or a problem contrived for testing ingenuity; also, something exhibiting marvelous skill in making. 2. The state of being puzzled; perplexity; as, to be in a puzzle.
• ENIGMATIC; ENIGMATICAL
  Relating to or resembling an enigma; not easily explained or accounted for; darkly expressed; obscure; puzzling; as, an enigmatical answer.
• PUZZLEDOM
  The domain of puzzles; puzzles, collectively. C. Kingsley.
• INSTRUCTRESS
  A woman who instructs; a preceptress; a governess. Johnson.
• LABYRINTHAL
  Pertaining to, or resembling, a labyrinth; intricate; labyrinthian.
• ILLUMINER
  One who, or that which, illuminates.
• LABYRINTHINE
  Pertaining to, or like, a labyrinth; labyrinthal.
• LABYRINTHICI
  An order of teleostean fishes, including the Anabas, or climbing perch, and other allied fishes. Note: They have, connected with the gill chamber, a special cavity in which a labyrinthiform membrane is arranged so as to retain water to supply the
• LABYRINTHIC; LABYRINTHICAL
  Like or pertaining to a labyrinth.
• LABYRINTHIFORM
  Having the form of a labyrinth; intricate.
• LABYRINTHIAN
  Intricately winding; like a labyrinth; perplexed; labyrinthal.
• ENIGMATICALLY
  Darkly; obscurely.
• ILLUMINE
  To illuminate; to light up; to adorn.
• CONFUSION
  1. The state of being mixed or blended so as to produce indistinctness or error; indistinct combination; disorder; tumult. The confusion of thought to which the Aristotelians were liable. Whewell. Moody beggars starving for a time Of pellmell havoc
• INSTRUCTION
  1. The act of instructing, teaching, or furnishing with knowledge; information. 2. That which instructs, or with which one is instructed; the intelligence or information imparted; as: Precept; information; teachings. Direction; order; command.
• INSTRUCTER
  See INSTRUCTOR
• INTRICACY
  The state or quality of being intricate or entangled; perplexity; involution; complication; complexity; that which is intricate or involved; as, the intricacy of a knot; the intricacy of accounts; the intricacy of a cause in controversy;
• ILLUMINEE
  One of the Illuminati.
• LABYRINTHODONT
  Of or pertaining to the Labyrinthodonta. -- n.
• PREINSTRUCT
  To instruct previously or beforehand. Dr. H. More.
• REILLUMINE
  To illumine again or anew; to reillume.
• MISINSTRUCT
  To instruct amiss.
• UNEMBARRASSMENT
  Freedom from embarrassment.
• DISEMBARRASSMENT
  Freedom or relief from impediment or perplexity.