• n.
    ⦿a situation from which extrication is difficult especially an unpleasant or trying one
    lexical concept
  • finds himself in a most awkward predicament
  • the woeful plight of homeless people

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechnoun
lexinfo:part of speechnoun
ontolex:lexicalized sense
  1. enl:plight
  2. enl:predicament
  3. enl:quandary
wn:interlingual indexili:i112726

Other

skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:label
  • predicament
  • plightpredicamentquandary