Synonyms for predicament
prɪˈdɪk ə mənt for 1 ; ˈprɛd ɪ kə- for 2predica·ment

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1. predicament

   Synonyms:
   difficulty, try, ing position, state, condition, dilemma, situation

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1. predicament, quandary, plightnoun

   a situation from which extrication is difficult especially an unpleasant or trying one

   "finds himself in a most awkward predicament"; "the woeful plight of homeless people"

   Synonyms:
   quandary, dilemma, plight, troth

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1. predicamentnoun

   Synonyms:
   situation (especially a bad situation), condition, state, position, posture, attitude, plight, case

2. predicamentnoun

   Synonyms:
   [Colloquial.] pass, pinch, push, extremity, exigency, emergency, conjuncture

3. predicamentnoun

   Synonyms:
   (Logic.) category, class

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1. List of paraphrases for "predicament":

   plight, dilemma, quagmire, hardship, impasse, situation

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How to use predicament in a sentence?

1. George Santayana:

   Life is not a spectacle or a feast it is a predicament.

2. Sydney Harris:

   If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem, but the perpetual human predicament is that the answer soon poses its own problems.

3. Eric Ulloa:

   We are being placed as actors in a very dangerous predicament, why are we not protecting our own from having to be in a hotel where the Christian owner can say, 'I'm sorry, you and your boyfriend can't lie in the same bed because the Bible tells me that's wrong.'.

4. Steve Jobs:

   The cure for Apple is not cost-cutting. The cure for Apple is to innovate its way out of its current predicament.

5. Trey Gowdy:

   Secretary Clinton alone created this predicament, but she alone does not get to determine its outcome.