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