If you are in a predicament, you are in an unpleasant situation that is difficult to get out of. The decision will leave her in a peculiar predicament. a difficult or unpleasant situation in which you do not know what to do, or in which you have to make a difficult choice (praedicamentum, from praedicare; PREDICATE)
a situation from which extrication is difficult especially an unpleasant or trying one; "finds himself in a most awkward predicament"; "the woeful plight of homeless people"
A class or kind described by any definite marks; hence, condition; particular situation or state; especially, an unfortunate or trying position or condition