predicament
noun /prɪˈdɪkəmənt/
/prɪˈdɪkəmənt/
- a difficult or an unpleasant situation, especially one where it is difficult to know what to do synonym quandary
- the club’s financial predicament
- I'm in a terrible predicament.
Extra Examples- Many young people find themselves in this predicament.
- Now I really was in a dire predicament.
- Other companies are in an even worse predicament than ourselves.
- She was searching for the right words to explain her predicament.
- When I was your age, I was in a similar predicament.
- He explained his predicament to the librarian.
- They are not to blame for their current predicament.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- awful
- difficult
- dire
- …
- be caught in
- be in
- face
- …
- in a/the predicament
Word Originlate Middle English (in Aristotelian logic): from late Latin praedicamentum ‘something predicated’ (rendering Greek katēgoria ‘category’), from Latin praedicare, from prae ‘beforehand’ + dicare ‘make known’. From the sense ‘category’ arose the sense ‘state of being, condition’; hence ‘unpleasant situation’.