Definitions for Riddle

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Riddle rid·dle

Spelling: [rid-l]

IPA: /ˈrɪd l/

Riddle is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 76 anagrams from letters in Riddle (ddeilr).

Definitions for Riddle

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 Riddle

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 Riddle

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

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

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

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

"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.

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.

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

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