dilemma🔊

A circumstance in which a choice must be made between two or more alternatives that seem equally undesirable.

A difficult circumstance or problem. +

(logic) A type of syllogism of the form "if A is true then B is true; if C is true then D is true; either A or C is true; therefore either B or D is true".

(rhetoric) Offering to an opponent a choice between two (equally unfavorable) alternatives.