predicament

predicament
    n 1: a situation from which extrication is difficult especially
         an unpleasant or trying one; "finds himself in a most
         awkward predicament"; "the woeful plight of homeless
         people" [syn: {predicament}, {quandary}, {plight}]
    

Predicament \Pre*dic"a*ment\, n. [Cf. F. pr['e]dicament, L.
   praedicamentum. See {Predicate}.]
   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.
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   2. (Logic) See {Category}.
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   Syn: Category; condition; state; plight.
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PREDICAMENT, n.  The wage of consistency.
    

185 Moby Thesaurus words for "predicament":
      adverse circumstances, adversity, affliction, aggravation,
      annoyance, baffle, bafflement, bearings, bewilderment, bind,
      blight, blood, bother, box, bracket, branch, breakers ahead,
      bummer, cardhouse, care, case, case of need, caste, category,
      cause for alarm, circumstance, clan, class, clutch, complication,
      condition, confoundment, confusion, corner, crisis, cross, crunch,
      curse, danger, dangerous ground, deep water, difficulties,
      difficulty, dilemma, dire necessity, discomposure, disconcert,
      disconcertedness, disconcertion, disconcertment, disturbance,
      division, downer, embarrassing position, embarrassment, emergency,
      endangerment, enigma, estate, exigence, exigency,
      fine how-do-you-do, fix, footing, gaping chasm, gathering clouds,
      grade, group, grouping, hard knocks, hard life, hard lot, hardcase,
      hardship, hazard, head, heading, hell to pay, hobble, hole, hot,
      hot water, house of cards, how-do-you-do, imbroglio, immediacy,
      impasse, imperative, imperativeness, imperilment, in a bind,
      irritation, jam, jeopardy, kin, label, level, location, lot,
      matter of necessity, menace, mess, mix, modality, mode, morass,
      mystery, nonplus, order, parlous straits, pass, peril, perplexity,
      perturbation, pickle, pigeonhole, pinch, place, plight, position,
      posture, pother, pressingness, pressure, pretty pass,
      pretty pickle, pretty predicament, problem, puzzle, puzzlement,
      quagmire, quandary, quicksand, race, rank, rating, riddle, rigor,
      risk, rocks ahead, rubric, scrape, sea of troubles, section, sept,
      set, situation, slough, spot, squeeze, standing, state, station,
      status, stew, sticky wicket, storm clouds, strain, strait, straits,
      stratum, stress, stress of life, subdivision, subgroup, suborder,
      swamp, thin ice, threat, tight spot, tight squeeze, tightrope,
      title, trial, tribulation, tricky spot, trouble, troubles,
      unassuredness, unholy mess, upset, urgency, urgent need,
      vale of tears, vicissitude