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- DictionaryPre·dic·a·ment/prēˈdikəm(ə)nt/
noun
- 1. a difficult, unpleasant, or embarrassing situation: "the club's financial predicament"
- 2. (in Aristotelian logic) each of the ten “categories,” often listed as: substance or being, quantity, quality, relation, place, time, posture, having or possession, action, and passion.
A predicament is a difficult, confusing, and unpleasant situation. The Greek word that predicament originally descends from means "a state of being." Which makes sense considering the words that sound like predicate are all about states of being–– predict , or say what's going to happen in the future, and predicate the second part of a ...
Predicament definition: an unpleasantly difficult, perplexing, or dangerous situation.. See examples of PREDICAMENT used in a sentence.
3 days ago · predicament in American English. (for 1, 3 prɪˈdɪkəmənt, for 2 ˈpredɪkəmənt) noun. 1. an unpleasantly difficult, perplexing, or dangerous situation. 2. a class or category of logical or philosophical predication. 3. archaic. a particular state, condition, or situation.
1. a perplexing, embarrassing, or difficult situation. 2. (Logic) logic obsolete one of Aristotle's ten categories of being. 3. archaic a specific condition, circumstance, state, position, etc. [C14: from Late Latin praedicāmentum what is predicated, from praedicāre to announce, assert; see predicate]
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. Oxford Collocations Dictionary.
Predicament, dilemma, plight, quandary refer to unpleasant or puzzling situations. Predicament and plight stress more the unpleasant nature, quandary and dilemma the puzzling nature of the situation.
noun [ C ] uk / prɪˈdɪkəmənt / us. Add to word list. Add to word list. a problem or a difficult situation: I sympathize with your predicament. (Definition of predicament from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
