All double bind synonyms

noun double bind

• crisis — A crisis is a situation in which something or someone is affected by one or more very serious problems.
• predicament — an unpleasantly difficult, perplexing, or dangerous situation.
• impasse — a position or situation from which there is no escape; deadlock.
• mess — a dirty, untidy, or disordered condition: The room was in a mess.
• puzzle — a toy, problem, or other contrivance designed to amuse by presenting difficulties to be solved by ingenuity or patient effort.
• quandary — a state of perplexity or uncertainty, especially as to what to do; dilemma.
• difficulty — the fact or condition of being difficult.
• problem — any question or matter involving doubt, uncertainty, or difficulty.
• plight — Archaic. pledge.
• box — A box is a square or rectangular container with hard or stiff sides. Boxes often have lids.
• bind — If something binds people together, it makes them feel as if they are all part of the same group or have something in common.
• fix — to repair; mend.
• strait — Often, straits. (used with a singular verb) a narrow passage of water connecting two large bodies of water.
• spot — a rounded mark or stain made by foreign matter, as mud, blood, paint, ink, etc.; a blot or speck.
• scrape — to deprive of or free from an outer layer, adhering matter, etc., or to smooth by drawing or rubbing something, especially a sharp or rough instrument, over the surface: to scrape a table to remove paint and varnish.
• jam — to press, squeeze, or wedge tightly between bodies or surfaces, so that motion or extrication is made difficult or impossible: The ship was jammed between two rocks.
• mire — a tract or area of wet, swampy ground; bog; marsh.
• perplexity — the state of being perplexed; confusion; uncertainty.
• corner — A corner is a point or an area where two or more edges, sides, or surfaces of something join.
• hole — an opening through something; gap; aperture: a hole in the roof; a hole in my sock.
• pickle — a single grain or kernel, as of barley or corn.
• hooker — Joseph, 1814–79, Union general in the U.S. Civil War.
• catch-22 — If you describe a situation as a Catch-22, you mean it is an impossible situation because you cannot do one thing until you do another thing, but you cannot do the second thing until you do the first thing.
• conundrum — A conundrum is a problem or puzzle which is difficult or impossible to solve.
• dilemma — a situation requiring a choice between equally undesirable alternatives.
• knot — either of two large sandpipers, Calidris canutus or C. tenuirostris, that breed in the Arctic and winter in the Southern Hemisphere.