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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1. Viktor Frankl:

   Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced by it-likewise a weak faith is weakened by predicament and catastrophes whereas a strong faith is strengthened by them.

2. Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo:

   We’re under attack from all directions, we stopped fighting and the other side did not, which put us in a predicament and we had to keep fighting to defend ourselves.

3. Patrick Shanahan:

   I don't have a good answer for how we're going to balance it. It is a predicament.

4. Dana Perino:

   If you don't have a huge majority, don't demand stupid things. And I think that's what happened … The Squad … made unreasonable demands that jarred with the reality of the Democrat predicament in the Senate. It wasn't going to happen. they have such little self-awareness. It's like Michael Scott's level [of] self-awareness.

5. Nicolas Martin, www.iatrogenic.org:

   The headline reads, Docs say patients make them prescribe useless antibiotics. This puts a physician in roughly the same predicament as a serial killer. The latter says, Stop me before I kill again, while the former says, Stop me before I prescribe again.