predicaments in English

noun

1

a difficult, unpleasant, or embarrassing situation.

the club's financial predicament

synonyms: difficult situation, mess, difficulty, plight, quandary, muddle, mare's nest, hole, fix, jam, pickle, scrape, bind, tight spot/corner, dilemma, can of worms

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.

noun

• difficult situation, mess, difficulty, plight, quandary, muddle, mare's nest, hole, fix, jam, pickle, scrape, bind, tight spot/corner, dilemma, can of worms
• quandary, plight

Use "predicaments" in a sentence

1. The striking images in Calenture illustrate the predicaments of each song's characters

2. The Great Blueness And Other Predicaments (English and Japanese Edition) Arnold Lobel

3. Career development is faced with many predicaments, such as stagnate, discontinue and tiredness of career.

4. Reasoning, Toulmin argued, was an Argumentative and persuasive activity, embedded in concrete human predicaments

5. 21 Toxic Work will help you pinpoint the workplace predicaments and stressors that are particularly harmful to you.

6. 10 The Paper presents some reformatory measures and suggestions on how to make enterprises freethernselves from current predicaments hey words.

7. 4 In looked that resembles the education misgovernment the behind, has the too many education predicaments and the education helpless.

8. Categories means (as you know), in Greek, the equivalent of the word "predicaments" in Latin: what is most radically predicable to define a field.

9. While understanding the specificity of Hong Kong’s situations, The Appearing Demos also comments on some global predicaments we are facing in the midst of neoliberalism and populism

10. Cretonne is a great all-rounder and can help you out in a range of sewing-related predicaments! Whether you need it for garments, decorative cushions or other practical home textiles like bedding

11. Bibliomancy is a traditional divinatory practice that can be found across all religions, and it uses passages from books or sacred texts as a way to predict and interpret future events and our relationship to moral and emotional predicaments