/ prɪˈdɪkəmənt; NAmE / noun
a difficult or unpleasant situation, especially one where it is difficult to know what to do
SYN quandary :
the club's financial predicament
I'm in a terrible predicament.
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WORD ORIGIN
late Middle English (in Aristotelian logic): from late Latin praedicamentum something predicated (rendering Greek katēgoria category), from Latin praedicare , from prae beforehand + dicare make known. From the sense category arose the sense state of being, condition ; hence unpleasant situation .