📒 a situation that makes problems, often one in which you have to make a very difficult choice between things of equal importance
I could see no way of resolving this moral dilemma.
The digital era brings new ethical dilemmas for journalists.
in a dilemma They were caught in a real dilemma.
📒 in a situation in which you have to make a choice between things that are equally unpleasant
The medical profession’s eagerness for scientific advance had impaled it on the horns of a dilemma, forcing an unnatural choice between science and morality.
The dire economic situation had placed the prime minister on the horns of a dilemma.