Word Meanings - QUANDARY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A state of difficulty or perplexity; doubt; uncertainty. (more info) adversity, perplexity, Icel. wandræedhi difficulty, trouble, fr.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of QUANDARY)

• Dilemma
• Fix
• hobble
• quandary
• doubt
• difficulty
• scrape

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of QUANDARY)

• Decide
• determine
• resolve
• assent
• Lubricate
• polish
• levigate
• dig
• indent
• wound

Related words: (words related to QUANDARY)

• ASSENTATORY
  Flattering; obsequious. -- As*sent"a*to*ri*ly, adv.
• DILEMMA
  An argument which presents an antagonist with two or more alternatives, but is equally conclusive against him, whichever alternative he chooses. Note: The following are instances of the dilemma. A young rhetorician applied to an old sophist to be
• ASSENTER
  One who assents.
• POLISHMENT
  The act of polishing, or the state of being polished.
• DOUBTFULLY
  In a doubtful manner. Nor did the goddess doubtfully declare. Dryden.
• DECIDER
  One who decides.
• DECIDEMENT
  Means of forming a decision. Beau. & Fl.
• INDENTMENT
  Indenture.
• RESOLVENT
  Having power to resolve; causing solution; solvent.
• QUANDARY
  A state of difficulty or perplexity; doubt; uncertainty. (more info) adversity, perplexity, Icel. wandræedhi difficulty, trouble, fr.
• POLISHED
  Made smooth and glossy, as by friction; hence, highly finished; refined; polite; as, polished plate; polished manners; polished verse.
• ASSENTMENT
  Assent; agreement.
• INDENTEDLY
  With indentations.
• HOBBLEBUSH
  A low bush having long, straggling branches and handsome flowers. It is found in the Northern United States. Called also shinhopple.
• DOUBT
  duten, douten, OF. duter, doter, douter, F. douter, fr. L. dubitare; 1. To waver in opinion or judgment; to be in uncertainty as to belief respecting anything; to hesitate in belief; to be undecided as to the truth of the negative or
• INDENTURE
  A mutual agreement in writing between two or more parties, whereof each party has usually a counterpart or duplicate; sometimes in the pl., a short form for indentures of apprenticeship, the contract by which a youth is bound apprentice to a master.
• INDENTED
  Notched like the part of a saw consisting of the teeth; serrated; as, an indented border or ordinary. 4. Bound out by an indenture; apprenticed; indentured; as, an indented servant. (more info) 1. Cut in the edge into points or inequalities, like
• RESOLVED
  Having a fixed purpose; determined; resolute; -- usually placed after its noun; as, a man resolved to be rich. That makes him a resolved enemy. Jer. Taylor. I am resolved she shall not settle here. Fielding.
• INDENTION
  See 4
• DECIDEDLY
  In a decided manner; indisputably; clearly; thoroughly.
• REDOUBTABLE
  Formidable; dread; terrible to foes; as, a redoubtable hero;
• REPOLISH
  To polish again.
• REDOUBT
  reductus, literally, a retreat, from L. reductus drawn back, retired, p. p. of reducere to lead or draw back; cf. F. réduit, also fr. LL. A small, and usually a roughly constructed, fort or outwork of varying shape, commonly erected
• DEPOLISHING
  The process of removing the vitreous glaze from porcelain, leaving the dull luster of the surface of ivory porcelian. Knight.
• PRERESOLVE
  To resolve beforehand; to predetermine. Sir E. Dering.
• MISDOUBT
  To be suspicious of; to have suspicion. I do not misdoubt my wife. Shak.
• DISASSENT
  To dissent.