Definitions for predicaments

predicaments pre·dic·a·ment

Spelling: [pri-dik-uh-muh nt for 1, 3; Predicaments is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 18 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 22 points.

You can make 2837 anagrams from letters in predicaments (acdeeimnprst).

Definitions for predicaments

noun

  1. an unpleasantly difficult, perplexing, or dangerous situation.
  2. a class or category of logical or philosophical predication.
  3. Archaic. a particular state, condition, or situation.

Origin of predicaments

1350-1400; 1580-90 for def 1; Middle English Late Latin praedicāmentum something predicated, asserted, derivative of praedicāre. See predicate, Examples for predicaments

He hoped to distract her from such grief over her predicament.

In a way, the roots of this predicament reach back hundreds of years.

Soon she was to learn of Tillie's predicament, and to take up the cudgels valiantly for her.

No one who was not a good sport could have grinned as Rawson did at his own predicament.

No, never; the witness had never been in such a predicament.

In this predicament the company turned to the Iowa legislature for protection.

When he first arrived in 2006, he only knew two or three others in his predicament.

But the line that follows may be key to the predicament Fonthes has found herself in: “Well, most of my family…”

His predicament eventually become something of a cause célèbre, attracting even the attention of the Princess of Wales.

Mark Reay knows his predicament is very different from theirs.

Word Value for predicaments
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18

Words with friends

22

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