Synonyms for pickle
ˈpɪk əlpick·le

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1. picklenoun

   vegetables (especially cucumbers) preserved in brine or vinegar

   Synonyms:
   fix, jam, muddle, hole, mess, kettle of fish

2. fix, hole, jam, mess, muddle, pickle, kettle of fishverb

   informal terms for a difficult situation

   "he got into a terrible fix"; "he made a muddle of his marriage"

   Synonyms:
   tidy sum, smother, peck, mint, crush, plenty, lot, location, locating, localisation, raft, quite a little, passel, hole, fix, mare's nest, press, jam, pile, muckle, fixture, mend, golf hole, electronic jamming, good deal, maw, fixing, mending, sight, gob, trap, deal, flock, stack, kettle of fish, fuddle, wad, messiness, hatful, mickle, hollow, heap, great deal, mess, repair, clutter, mess hall, mass, jamming, batch, yap, mountain, welter, spate, mussiness, slew, localization, jumble, cakehole, muss, muddle, reparation, pot

3. pickleverb

   preserve in a pickling liquid

Matched Categories

1. • Cookery
   • Preserve
   • Relish

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1. picklenoun

   Synonyms:
   salt and water (for preserving meat)

2. picklenoun

   Synonyms:
   vinegar (for preserving meats or vegetables)

3. picklenoun

   Synonyms:
   sorry condition, sad plight

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1. picklenoun

   Synonyms:
   brine, dilemma, predicament, plight, marinade

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1. List of paraphrases for "pickle":

   pumpkin

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How to use pickle in a sentence?

1. Sally T.:

   That's a dilly of a pickle.

2. Chairwoman Felicia Marcus told reporters:

   We're in a tough pickle on this, we have to prepare for drought and flooding at the same time.

3. Christopher Curran:

   We're in this pickle through no fault of our own.

4. Ambrose Bierce:

   Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

5. Lisa Bragança:

   This is a real pickle for UBS to say the collateral value assigned to the closed-end fund shares is zero.