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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Predicament \Pre*dic"a*ment\, n. [Cf. F. pr['e]dicament, L. praedicamentum. See Predicate.]
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.-
(Logic) See Category.
Syn: Category; condition; state; plight.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., "category, class; one of Aristotle's 10 categories," from Medieval Latin predicamentum, from Late Latin praedicamentum "quality, category, something predicted, that which is asserted," from Latin praedicatus, past participle of praedicare (see predicate). Praedicamentum is a loan-translation of Greek kategoria, Aristotle's word. The meaning "unpleasant situation" is first recorded 1580s.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A definite class, state or condition. 2 An unfortunate or trying position or condition; a tight spot.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Predicament is a 2010 comedy horror film based on the 1975 novel by Ronald Hugh Morrieson and starring Jemaine Clement of the musical comedy duo Flight of the Conchords plus Tim Finn of the Finn Brothers. Filmed in Hawera and Eltham in Taranaki, it was the last Morrieson novel to be adapted for cinema; his other three novels were filmed in the 1980s.
Usage examples of "predicament".
If you show some appreciation of your predicament by immediately disgorging these stolen goods onto the floor before you, you will be sentenced to the loss of two stone each.
He had been up here collecting samples from hair traps stationed throughout the remote areas of the park and freshening their foul-smelling scent lures when he found himself in this predicament.
From a chance remark of the Abyssinian, Werper discovered the purpose of the expedition, and when he realized that these men were the enemies of Achmet Zek, he took heart, and immediately blamed his predicament upon the Arab.
Fortunately, if all Kwan wanted was to be rid of him, Batu thought that he could salvage a respectable death from his predicament.
The railway line to the port of Beira on the Mozambique Channel was the natural solution to his predicament.
Mansfield Sothern collapses in his dressing room a few minutes before the curtain is to rise, and, as the gaff is all sold out, it is naturally a terrible predicament for James Burdekin, as he may have to refund the money, and thinking of this has James on the verge of a collapse himself.
To tell the truth, Fatso is so hungry that his stomach is wondering if his throat is on a vacation and what is more he does not have as much as one thin dime in his pants pockets to relieve his predicament.
A realization of his predicament at last supplanted the geologic reveries that had ifiled his mind.
Iraq had an unemployment problem before the Gulf War, which was one of the predicaments Saddam believed he could escape from by invading Kuwait.
Actually, this entire situation stunk, and she decided she needed to change their predicament.
The longer she went without knowing the reasons behind her predicament, the testier and edgier she would become.
What she already knew moreover was full, to her vision, of English, of eccentric, of Thackerayan character--Kate Croy having gradually become not a little explicit on the subject of her situation, her past, her present, her general predicament, her small success, up to the present hour, in contenting at the same time her father, her sister, her aunt and herself.
I sense the predicament of the shoemaker who tries to sell shoes in a village of shoemakers.
To make his predicament worse, Titus Lafrenius came up with two legions of Vestini and Publius Vettius Scato arrived with two legions of Marsi!
It seemed to me, and I am still of the same opinion, that the decision of wearing the turban befits only a Christian despairing of himself and at the end of his wits, and fortunately I was lost not in that predicament.