Predicament - definition, pronunciation, transcription

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Amer.  |prɪˈdɪkəmənt|  American pronunciation of the word predicament
Brit.  |prɪˈdɪkəm(ə)nt|  British pronunciation of the word predicament

noun

- a situation from which extrication is difficult especially an unpleasant or trying one (syn: plight, quandary)
finds himself in a most awkward predicament

Extra examples

The governor has gotten himself into quite a predicament.

I don't know how to get out of the predicament I'm in.

Here was a predicament, because I was in a desperate hurry.

She went to the office to explain her predicament.

Other married couples are in a similar predicament.

What a predicament!

...he invariably spends more time bewailing his predicament than trying to fix it...

The hero's predicament is foreshadowed in the first chapter.

Her vague, amorphous statement of her predicament was part of what made it so hard for her to solve it

Word forms

noun
singular: predicament
plural: predicaments
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