Definitions for riddles

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riddles rid·dle

Spelling: [rid-l]

IPA: /ˈrɪd l/

Riddles is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 158 anagrams from letters in riddles (ddeilrs).

Definitions for riddles

noun

1. a question or statement so framed as to exercise one's ingenuity in answering it or discovering its meaning; conundrum.
2. a puzzling question, problem, or matter.
3. a puzzling thing or person.
4. any enigmatic or dark saying or speech.
5. a coarse sieve, as one for sifting sand in a foundry.

verb (used with object)

1. to pierce with many holes, suggesting those of a sieve:
2. to fill or affect with (something undesirable, weakening, etc.):
3. to impair or refute completely by persistent verbal attacks:
4. to sift through a riddle, as gravel; screen.

verb (used without object)

1. to propound riddles; speak enigmatically.

Origin of riddles

before 1000; Middle English redel, redels (noun), Old English rǣdels(e) counsel, opinion, imagination, riddle (rǣd(an) to counsel, rede + -els(e) deverbal noun suffix

Examples for riddles

The sphinx did not slay herself until her riddle had been guessed.

Dickinson did this as a game and a test—she loved riddles and turned herself into a riddle wrapped in her own lines.

I had enough of it, and went out, firmly resolved to find the key to the riddle.

"He hasn't got a father," I replied, hoping for some answer as to a riddle.

Percy Roden was gratified, and read the riddle by the light of his own vanity.

Some will send paragraph-long descriptions of why the riddle is ‘flawed.’

The question, almost akin to a riddle, is certainly a relevant one to anybody in a creative field.

Able-bodied people rarely notice the barriers that riddle the world which keep the disabled from participating in society.

All questioning was vain; her heart gave no solution of the riddle.

When Scott Kleinberg wrote about the riddle for The Chicago Tribune, he changed the answer.