Definition of Predicament

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Definition of Predicament
	Predicament A class or kind described by any definite marks; hence, condition; particular situation or state; especially, an unfortunate or trying position or condition. See Category. Related Definitions: An, Any, By, Category, Class, Condition, Definite, Described, Especially, Hence, Kind, Or, Particular, Position, See, Situation, State, Trying, Unfortunate

Predicament Quotations

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.
Charlie Chaplin

Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.
George Santayana

Life is a predicament which precedes death.
Henry James

Sometimes I think all my pictures are just pictures of me. My concern is... the human predicament; only what I consider the human predicament may simply be my own.
Richard Avedon

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.
Paracelsus

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.
Allen Tate

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

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.
Paul de Man

Predicament Translations

predicament in German is Kategorie

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