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    predicament
    /prɪˈdɪkəm(ə)nt/

    noun

    • 1. a difficult, unpleasant, or embarrassing situation: "the club's financial predicament"
    • 2. (in Aristotelian logic) each of the ten ‘categories’, often listed as: substance or being, quantity, quality, relation, place, time, posture, having or possession, action, and passion.

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    Predicament is a noun that means an unpleasant or confusing situation that is difficult to get out of or solve. Learn more about its synonyms, collocations, pronunciation and translations with Cambridge Dictionary.

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    A predicament is a category, condition, or state, especially a difficult or perplexing one. Learn the synonyms, examples, and word history of predicament from the Merriam-Webster dictionary.

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    If you're engaged to get married but suddenly fall in love with someone else, you have gotten yourself into quite a predicament. A predicament is a difficult, confusing, and unpleasant situation. The Greek word that predicament originally descends from means "a state of being."

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    A predicament is an unpleasant or difficult situation that is hard to escape. Learn the word origin, pronunciation, usage, and related terms of predicament from Collins Dictionary.

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    A predicament is a difficult or unpleasant situation from which escape is hard or impossible. Learn the origin, synonyms, and usage of the word predicament, and see related expressions and examples from various sources.

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    A predicament is a difficult or unpleasant situation, especially one where it is hard to know what to do. Learn how to pronounce, use and collocate this word with the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary app and website.