{
    "term": "predicament",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "a difficult or an unpleasant situation, especially one where it is difficult to know what to do",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "the club’s financial predicament"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I'm in a terrible predicament."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Many young people find themselves in this predicament."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Now I really was in a dire predicament."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Other companies are in an even worse predicament than ourselves."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She was searching for the right words to explain her predicament."
                },
                {
                    "text": "When I was your age, I was in a similar predicament."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He explained his predicament to the librarian."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They are not to blame for their current predicament."
                }
            ],
            "synonyms": "quandary",
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["awful", "difficult", "dire"],
                "verb + predicament": ["be caught in", "be in", "face"],
                "preposition": ["in a/​the predicament"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/prɪˈdɪkəmənt/",
                "audio": "pr/predicament/predicament__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/prɪˈdɪkəmənt/",
                "audio": "pr/predicament/predicament__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "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’."
}