predicament

Meanings

• noun

  A situation that is difficult to deal with or understand.

  - "The economic recession caused a predicament for many businesses."
  - "Finding the missing key was a predicament for the homeowner."

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Rhymes

Words rhyming with predicament
complaint , painment , mountain , rainment

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Variants

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predicament , predicaments

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Etymology

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From the Latin word 'praedicare' meaning 'to proclaim, to announce, to preach'.

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Trivia

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1. The word 'predicament' has 10 letters.

2. The term 'predicament' is often used in the context of problem-solving and crisis management.

3. The term 'predicament' can also be used metaphorically to describe a person's emotional state.

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Related Concepts

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1. situation: A predicament is a type of situation that is challenging or difficult to deal with.

2. dilemma: A predicament is a type of dilemma, which is a situation that presents two or more difficult choices.

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Quotes

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1. The President found himself in the backwash of earlier deals, and the demands of secrecy made his "predicament" the more vexing.

   - Taylor Branch,{it}Parting the Waters{/it},1988

2. We saw photographs that week of buildings burning, stunned onlookers, dust-covered firemen. Very few pictures conveyed the fact that people just like us, our fellow passengers on the subway, suddenly found themselves in a mortal "predicament" and many died horribly.

   - Garrison Keillor,{it}New York Times Book Review{/it},3 Sept. 2006

3. The captain of archers fidgeted and coughed and rolled his eyes at his men, as if such cupidity and dishonor were an inevitable but minor aspect of the human "predicament" …

   - Michael Chabon,{it}New York Times Magazine{/it},6 May 2007

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Culture

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The term 'predicament' has been used in various literary works to depict difficult or complex situations. For instance, in Shakespeare's 'The Tempest', the character Prospero finds himself in a predicament when he is stranded on an island with his daughter.

How to Memorize "predicament"

1. visualize
   

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2. associate
   

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3. mnemonics
   

   - Create a mnemonic using the first letter of each word in the definition: P - Predicament, D - Difficult, I - Incomprehensible, C - Complex, A - Annoying, M - Mystifying, E - Embarrassing, N - Nefarious, T - Troublesome.

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