Definition of Predicament

1. Noun. A situation from which extrication is difficult especially an unpleasant or trying one. "The woeful plight of homeless people"

Exact synonyms: Plight, Quandary
Specialized synonyms: Care, Box, Corner, Hot Water
Generic synonyms: Difficulty

Definition of Predicament

1. n. A class or kind described by any definite marks; hence, condition; particular situation or state; especially, an unfortunate or trying position or condition.

Definition of Predicament

1. Noun. A definite class, state or condition. ¹

2. Noun. An unfortunate or trying position or condition; a tight spot. ¹

3. Noun. (logic) That which is predicated; a category. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Predicament

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Predicament

prediagnoses
prediagnosis
prediagnostic
predial
predialed
predialing
predialled
predialling
predials
predialysis
prediastolic
predicability
predicable
predicables
predicably
predicament (current term)
predicamental
predicaments
predicand
predicant
predicants
predicate
predicate calculus
predicate logic
predicated
predicates
predicating
predication
predications
predicative

Literary usage of Predicament

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The New Realism: Coöperative Studies in Philosophy by Edwin Bissell Holt (1912)
"The fallacy of argument from the ego-centric predicament. — The 'ego-centric predicament' consists in the impossibility of finding anything that is not ..."

2. The New Realism: Coöperative Studies in Philosophy by Edwin Bissell Holt, Walter Taylor Marvin, William Pepperell Montague, Ralph Barton Perry, Walter B. Pitkin, Edward Gleason Spaulding (1912)
"The fallacy of argument from the ego-centric predicament. r^The 'ego-centric predicament' consists in the impossibility of finding anything that is not ..."

3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1846)
"33 ernment, in the predicament of Drury Lane Theatre when the committee of ... The monopolists are now in the pleasing predicament of the folks in the cave ..."

4. Roughing It by Mark Twain (2001)
"... and forthwith put my cold hands into my empty pockets and began an inoffensive A predicament. -> jig to warm my feet and stir up some latent courage—but ..."

5. Travels in North America During the Years 1834, 1835 & 1836: Including a by Charles Augustus Murray (1839)
"I NOW found myself in a very unpleasant predicament. My life, indeed, was not in much danger, because I might, probably, have been permitted to accompany ..."

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