| Conundrum 1. (n.) 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. 2. (n.) A question to which only a conjectural answer can be made. Thesaurus Entries abuse of terms, acrostic, amphibologism, amphiboly, calembour, charade, conundrum, corruption, equivocality, equivoque, jeu de mots, logogram, logogriph, malapropism, metagram, missaying, palindrome, paronomasia, play on words, pun, punning, rebus, riddle, spoonerism, wordplay |