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Webster 1913 Edition
Predicament
1.
A class or kind described by any definite marks; hence, condition; particular situation or state; especially, an unfortunate or trying position or condition.
“O woeful sympathy; piteous predicament!” Shak.
Webster 1828 Edition
Predicament
PREDIC'AMENT
,Noun.
1.
In logic, a category; a series or order of all the predicates or attributes contained under any genus. The school philosophers distribute all the objects of our thoughts and ideas into genera or classes, which the Greeks call categories, and the Latins predicaments. Aristotle made ten categories, viz. substance, quantity, quality, relation, action, passion, time, place, situation and habit.2.
Class or kind described by any definite marks; hence, condition; particular situation or state. We say, the country is in a singular predicament.
Definition 2024
predicament
predicament
English
Alternative forms
- prædicament (chiefly obsolete)
Noun
predicament (plural predicaments)
- A definite class, state or condition.
- An unfortunate or trying position or condition; a tight spot.
- 1978, Daniel Bell, The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism, page xv (20th edition):
- Culture, for me, is the effort to provide a coherent set of answers to the existential predicaments that confront all human beings in the passage of their life.
- 2011 December 10, Marc Higginson, “Bolton 1 - 2 Aston Villa”, in BBC Sport:
- The Midlanders will hope the victory will kickstart a campaign that looked to have hit the buffers, but the sense of trepidation enveloping the Reebok Stadium heading into the new year underlines the seriousness of the predicament facing Owen Coyle's men.
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- (logic) That which is predicated; a category.
Synonyms
- See also Wikisaurus:difficult situation
Related terms
Translations
A definite class, state or condition.
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An unfortunate or trying position or condition.
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See also
References
- predicament in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- predicament in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- predicament at OneLook Dictionary Search