no choice

ADJECTIVE

between the devil and the deep blue sea

Synonyms

WEAK

Catch-22 Hobson's choice between Scylla and Charybdis between a rock and a hard place between the hammer and the anvil between two fires cornered in a dilemma in a pickle in a predicament in the middle sitting on a powder keg

NOUN

Hobson's choice

Synonyms

WEAK

lack of choice no alternative only choice zero option

NOUN

necessity

Synonyms

STRONGEST

essential fundamental obligation precondition prerequisite requirement urgency

STRONG

call cause claim compulsion demand desideratum duress essence exaction exigency godsend imperative indispensability inevitability inexorableness must must-have necessary pinch privation requisite stress vitals want

WEAK

life or death needfulness no alternative sine qua non undeniability vital part

Antonyms

STRONGEST

auxiliary extra trivia

WEAK

desire

Example Sentences

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The couple had no choice but to pay for them again.

From BBC • Jun. 28, 2026

For people like Monika Awadalla, however, they feel they have no choice but to find GLP-1s on their own, unable to afford the cost of treatment through a physician.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 23, 2026

“In the regional arena, it became clear to neighboring countries that they had no choice but to engage positively and constructively with Iran,” according to the newspaper on June 15.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 23, 2026

The laws and suits mean that companies may have no choice but to install age-verification systems.

From Barron's • Jun. 17, 2026

It was madness to walk beneath the ice cliffs when at any moment a snowfall might obliterate them, but they had no choice.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

no choice

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