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There is fear as to whether Japan, reduced to such a predicament, could ever manage to pay reparations to certain designated Allied Powers without shifting the burden upon the other Allied Powers.
Shigeru Yoshida

Meaning of "predicament" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD PREDICAMENT

From Late Latin praedicāmentum what is predicated, from praedicāre to announce, assert.
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PRONUNCIATION OF PREDICAMENT

predicament  [prɪˈdɪkəmənt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PREDICAMENT

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Predicament is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES PREDICAMENT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Predicament

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.

Definition of predicament in the English dictionary

The first definition of predicament in the dictionary is a perplexing, embarrassing, or difficult situation. Other definition of predicament is one of Aristotle's ten categories of being. Predicament is also a specific condition, circumstance, state, position, etc.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PREDICAMENT


adamant
ˈædəmənt
disarmament
dɪsˈɑːməmənt
empowerment
ɪmˈpaʊəmənt
filament
ˈfɪləmənt
impairment
ɪmˈpɛəmənt
instrument
ˈɪnstrəmənt
ligament
ˈlɪɡəmənt
measurement
ˈmɛʒəmənt
measurements
ˈmɛʒəmənt
medicament
mɪˈdɪkəmənt
ornament
ˈɔːnəmənt
parlement
ˈpɑːləmənt
parliament
ˈpɑːləmənt
procurement
prəˈkjʊəmənt
requirement
rɪˈkwaɪəmənt
retirement
rɪˈtaɪəmənt
temperament
ˈtɛmpərəmənt
testament
ˈtɛstəmənt
tournament
ˈtʊənəmənt
virement
ˈvaɪəmənt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PREDICAMENT

predicability
predicable
predicableness
predicamental
predicant
predicate
predicate calculus
predication
predicative
predicatively
predicator
predicatory
predict
predictability
predictable
predictableness
predictably
predicter
prediction
predictive

WORDS THAT END LIKE PREDICAMENT

Act of Parliament
advertisement
ament
armament
Blessed Sacrament
Christmas ornament
cruciate ligament
European Parliament
firmament
Houses of Parliament
lament
lineament
Member of Parliament
Member of the European Parliament
monofilament
New Testament
Old Testament
parament
rearmament
sacrament
Scottish Parliament

Synonyms and antonyms of predicament in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «PREDICAMENT»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «predicament» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of predicament

Translation of «predicament» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PREDICAMENT

Find out the translation of predicament to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of predicament from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «predicament» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

困境
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

apuro
570 millions of speakers

English

predicament
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

दुर्दशा
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

مأزق
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

затруднительное
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

apuro
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বিধেয়
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

situation difficile
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Keadaan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Dilemma
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

苦境
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

곤경
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Predicament
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tình trạng khó khăn
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

இக்கட்டான
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

दुर्दैव
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

çıkmaz
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

situazione difficile
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

kłopot
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

скрутне
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

neplăcută
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

δυσάρεστη
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

penarie
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

predika
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

knipe
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of predicament

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PREDICAMENT»

The term «predicament» is quite widely used and occupies the 36.327 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PREDICAMENT» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «predicament» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «predicament» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about predicament

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9 QUOTES WITH «PREDICAMENT»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word predicament.
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Charlie Chaplin
That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clutching my cane, straightening my derby hat and fixing my tie, even though I have just landed on my head.
2
James Frecheville
Luckily, I haven't been offered any $300 million movies that I hate. So I'm not in that predicament just yet.
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Tom Hooper
If you look at Shakespeare's history plays, what the setting of monarchy allows is this extraordinary intensification of emotions and predicament.
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Paul de Man
Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.
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Paracelsus
The dreams which reveal the supernatural are promises and messages that God sends us directly: they are nothing but His angels, His ministering spirits , who usually appear to us when we are in a great predicament.
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Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
We are not angels, we are merely sophisticated apes. Yet we feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, craving transcendence and all the time trying to spread our wings and fly off, and it's really a very odd predicament to be in, if you think about it.
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Allen Tate
So the poet, who wants to be something that he cannot be, and is a failure in plain life, makes up fictitious versions of his predicament that are interesting even to other persons because nobody is a perfect automobile salesman.
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Franz Wright
I am in no way different from anyone else, that my predicament, my sense of aloneness or isolation may be precisely what unites me with everyone.
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Shigeru Yoshida
There is fear as to whether Japan, reduced to such a predicament, could ever manage to pay reparations to certain designated Allied Powers without shifting the burden upon the other Allied Powers.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PREDICAMENT»

Discover the use of predicament in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to predicament and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Predicament of Culture: Twentieth-century Ethnography, ...
The Predicament of Culture is a critical ethnography of the West in its changing relations with other societies.
James Clifford, 1988
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The Predicament of Belief: Science, Philosophy, and Faith
This book is intended for those who care about that question and are dissatisfied with the rigid dichotomies that dominate the contemporary debate.
Philip Clayton, Steven Knapp, 2011
3
Orientalism and the Postcolonial Predicament: Perspectives ...
This book explores the ways in which colonial administrators constructed knowledge about the society and culture of India and the processes through which that knowledge has shaped past and present Indian reality.
Carol Appadurai Breckenridge, Peter van der Veer, 1993
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The Arab Predicament: Arab Political Thought and Practice ...
Ajami's acclaimed study, updated in 1992 in light of recent turbulent events, remains an indispensable guide to the politics of the Arab world.
Fouad Ajami, 1992
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The Post-Romantic Predicament
These essays, brought together from the Paul de Man papers at the University of California (Irvine), make a significant contribution to the cultural history of deconstruction, and to the present state of literary theory.
Paul De Man, Martin McQuillan, 2012
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The Predicament of Blackness: Postcolonial Ghana and the ...
While much has been written on Africa’s complex ethnic and tribal relationships, Jemima Pierre’s groundbreaking The Predicament of Blackness is the first book to tackle the question of race in West Africa through its postcolonial ...
Jemima Pierre, 2013
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Egypt's Economic Predicament: A Study in the Interaction of ...
This is a succinct and lucid analysis of Egypt's major economic problems, their origin and development, and their relationship to Egypt's social turmoil.
Ğalāl A. Amīn, 1995
8
Prosperity's Predicament: Identity, Reform, and Resistance ...
Built on extraordinarily intimate and detailed research in a Sichuan village that Isabel Crook began in 1940, the book provides an unprecedented history of Chinese rural life over the past 70 years, ranging from the Japanese occupation of ...
Isabel Brown Crook, Christina Kelley Gilmartin, Gail Hershatter, 2013
9
Lebanon's Predicament
This volume brings together data from population biology, community ecology, comparative biology, and paleontology to answer this question.
Samir Khalaf, 1987
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The Predicament of Postmodern Theology: Radical Orthodoxy Or ...
This text explores, in depth, two antithetical schools of postmodern theology, namely the radical orthodoxy of John Milbank and the nihilist textualism of Don Cupitt.
Gavin Hyman, 2001

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PREDICAMENT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term predicament is used in the context of the following news items.
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She Sandiford: David Cameron's deathrow predicament
Trade and counter terrorism co-operation are technically on the two at the top of Cameron's goal -day visit to Malaysia within a tour of South ... «Observer News, Jul 15»
2
The PED Predicament In Professional Gaming
Competitive video game tournaments have grown exponentially in both prevalence and commercial popularity over the past decade. «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
3
TNCA's predicament due to 'conflict of interest' issue
The Indian cricket board's (BCCI) mandate to officials in state associations to declare any potential conflict of interest may put the Tamil Nadu ... «Cricbuzz, Jul 15»
4
NFL wide receiver David Nelson's predicament: choosing between …
The NFL wide receiver, who's currently a free agent, believes he is being forced to choose between his football career and his life's mission. «Winnipeg Free Press, Jul 15»
5
Chris Brown baffled by Philippine predicament
U.S. singer Chris Brown was still waiting in the Philippines on Thursday after authorities blocked him from leaving the country a day earlier over ... «KTUU.com, Jul 15»
6
Pet predicament
Pleasanton resident Rosalyn Simon holds foster kitten Charlotte at her home last week. Simon had seven foster kittens from Tri-Valley Animal ... «Pleasanton Weekly, Jul 15»
7
Can Penn West Petroleum Ltd. Survive its Self-Made Predicament?
It has been a near-perfect storm of poor choices and economic scenarios that have led Penn West Petroleum Ltd. (TSX:PWT)(NYSE:PWE) to ... «The Motley Fool Canada, Jul 15»
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Chris Johnson Trade Trouble Highlights Predicament Frank Wren …
There are a lot of fans of the Atlanta Braves who are having difficulty during this season for one reason or another. It's not easy to convince a ... «RantSports, Jul 15»
9
How did Greece get to the present predicament?
A bank employee distributes priority tickets to pensioner customers outside a National bank of Greece branch in central Athens, Greece, 20 July ... «New Europe, Jul 15»
10
Weather prediction predicament
Garth Rattray: Weather prediction predicament. Published:Monday | July 20, 2015. Photo · Video · Ricardo Makyn. Our weather forecasters had predicted an ... «Jamaica Gleaner, Jul 15»

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