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predicament
noun
Synonyms and Antonyms of PREDICAMENT
a difficult, puzzling, or embarrassing situation from which there is no easy escape <if you had told the truth in the first place, we wouldn't be in this predicament>
Synonyms bind, box, catch-22, corner, dilemma, fix, hole, impasse, jackpot [chiefly West], jam, mire, pickle, quagmire, rabbit hole, rattrap, spot, sticky wicket, swamp
Related Words difficulty, node; hot water, soup; pinch, plight, quandary, scrape, trouble; deadlock, halt, logjam, stalemate, standstill; clutch, crisis, crossroad, emergency, exigency, juncture, strait
Phrases kettle of fish
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