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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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PREDICAMENT meaning: 1. an unpleasant situation that is...
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noun. pre· dic· a· ment pri-ˈdi-kə-mənt. sense 1 is usually ˈpre-di-kə- Synonyms of predicament. 1. : the character, status, or classification assigned by a predication. specifically : category sense 1. 2. : condition, state. especially : a difficult, perplexing, or trying situation. Synonyms. bind. box. catch-22. corner. dilemma. fix. hole.
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."
Predicament definition: an unpleasantly difficult, perplexing, or dangerous situation.. See examples of PREDICAMENT used in a sentence.
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.
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.
A predicament is a difficult or unpleasant situation, especially one where it is hard to know what to do. Learn how to use this word in sentences, synonyms, pronunciation and word origin.