English-Thai Dictionary

quandary

N ความ ไม่แน่ใจ  ความลังเลใจ  ความฉงนสนเท่ห์  predicament plight puzzle difficulty kwam-mai-nea-jai

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

QUANDARY

n.Doubt; uncertainty; a state of difficulty or perplexity.

 

QUANDARY

v.t.To bring into a state of uncertainty or difficulty. [Not used. ]

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

QUANDARY

Quan "da *ry, n.; pl. Quandaries. Etym: [Prob. fr. OE. wandreth adversity, perplexity, Icel. wandræedhi difficulty, trouble, fr. vandr difficult. ]

 

Defn: A state of difficulty or perplexity; doubt; uncertainty.

 

QUANDARY

QUANDARY Quan "da *ry, v. t.

 

Defn: To bring into a state of uncertainty, perplexity, or difficulty. [Obs. ] Otway.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

quandary

quan da ry |ˈkwänd (ə )rē ˈkwɑnd (ə )ri | ▶noun ( pl. quandaries ) a state of perplexity or uncertainty over what to do in a difficult situation: Kate is in a quandary . • a difficult situation; a practical dilemma: a legal quandary. ORIGIN late 16th cent.: perhaps partly from Latin quando ‘when. ’

 

Oxford Dictionary

quandary

quandary |ˈkwɒnd (ə )ri | ▶noun ( pl. quandaries ) a state of perplexity or uncertainty over what to do in a difficult situation: Kate was in a quandary . • a difficult situation; a practical dilemma: a legal quandary. ORIGIN late 16th cent.: perhaps partly from Latin quando ‘when ’.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

quandary

quandary noun conflicting appointments left us in a quandary: predicament, plight, difficult situation, awkward situation; trouble, muddle, mess, confusion, difficulty, dilemma, mare's nest; informal sticky situation, pickle, hole, stew, fix, bind, jam.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

quandary

quandary noun George was in a quandary: dilemma, plight, predicament, state of uncertainty, state of perplexity, unfortunate situation, difficult situation, awkward situation; trouble, muddle, mix-up, mare's nest, mess, confusion, difficulty, impasse, stalemate; Brit. cleft stick; informal sticky situation, pickle, hole, stew, fix, bind, jam.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

quandary

quan da ry /kwɑ́nd (ə )ri |kwɔ́n -/名詞 複 -ries C 〖通例単数形で 〗 «…についての » 困惑, 戸惑い, 迷い «over , about » ▸ in a quandary 途方に暮れて, 迷って