Word that means every outcome is worse? [duplicate]
What word means that every outcome is worse than where you started,
For example, You must make a choice but the choices are a worse situation than your current one.
This might be described as a "no-win situation"—a situation where there are multiple possible outcomes, but none of them are seen as positive.
From Wikipedia:
A no-win situation, also called a “lose-lose situation”, is one where a person has choices, but no choice leads to a net gain.
Or from Dictionary.com:
A situation certain to end in failure or disappointment, as in If the in-laws visit them or they visit the in-laws, either way they see it as a no-win situation. [c. 1960]