predicament
pre‧dic‧a‧ment /prɪˈdɪkəmənt/ noun [countable]
مخمصه، حالت، وضع نامساعد، وضع خطرناک
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Synonyms & Related Wordspredicament[noun]Synonyms: fix
(informal), dilemma, hole
(slang), jam
(informal), mess, pinch, plight, quandary, scrape
(informal), situation, spot
(informal)
Related Idioms: in a bind
Related Words: emergency,
exigency,
juncture,
pass,
pinch,
strait,
asperity,
difficulty,
hardness,
hardship,
rigor,
vicissitude,
Dutch,
trouble,
condition,
posture,
situation,
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English Dictionarypre‧dic‧a‧ment /prɪˈdɪkəmənt/
noun [countable][
Date: 1300-1400;
Language: Late Latin;
Origin: praedicamentum, from praedicare; ⇒ predicate2]
a difficult or unpleasant situation in which you do not know what to do, or in which you have to make a difficult choice:
the country’s economic predicament She went to the office to explain her predicament.in a predicament Other married couples are in a similar predicament. [TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲
Collocationspredicament noun ADJ. awful, awkward, dire, worse Other companies are in an even worse predicament than ourselves. | current, present | financial, personal VERB + PREDICAMENT be in, find yourself in, get into Many young people find themselves in this predicament.
place sb in, put sb in | escape (from), get out of How were we to escape this awful predicament?
solve PREP. in a/the ~ Now I really was
in a dire predicament.
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