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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | labyrinth; confusion |
| Synonyms: | bewilderment, convolution, entanglement, hodgepodge, imbroglio, intricacy, jungle, knot, meander, meandering, mesh, miscellany, morass, muddle, network, perplexity, puzzle, quandary, skein, snarl, tangle, torsion, twist, uncertainty, web, winding |
| Main Entry: | pickle |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sticky situation |
| Synonyms: | bind, box*, corner*, difficulty, dilemma, disorder, fix, hole*, hot water, jam*, predicament, quandary, scrape, spot*, tight spot |
| Antonyms: | boon, pleasure |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | plight |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dilemma, difficulty; situation |
| Synonyms: | bad news, circumstances, condition, corner*, double trouble, extremity, fix*, hole*, impasse, jam, perplexity, pickle, pinch*, predicament, quandary, scrape*, spot*, state*, straits, tight situation, trouble |
| Antonyms: | blessing, boon, good fortune |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | predicament |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | difficult situation |
| Synonyms: | Catch-22, asperity, bad news, bind*, circumstance, clutch, condition, corner*, crisis, deadlock, deep water, dilemma, drag*, emergency, exigency, fix*, hang-up, hardship, hole, hot water, imbroglio, impasse, jam*, juncture, large order, lot, mess*, muddle, pass, perplexity, pickle, pinch, plight, position, posture, puzzle, quagmire, quandary, rigor, rough go, scrape*, soup, spot*, state*, strait, tall order ticklish spot tight situation trouble, vicissitude |
| Antonyms: | fix, good fortune, solution |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | problem |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | difficulty; bad situation |
| Synonyms: | botheration, box*, can of worms, complication, count*, crunch, dilemma, disagreement, dispute, disputed point, doubt, headache, hitch*, hot water, issue, mess*, obstacle, pickle, point at issue, predicament, quandary, question, scrape*, squeeze*, trouble, worriment |
| Antonyms: | good situation, solution |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | quagmire |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bad situation |
| Synonyms: | box*, corner*, difficulty, dilemma, entanglement, fix, hole*, imbroglio, impasse, involvement, jam, mire, morass, muddle, pass, perplexity, pickle, pinch*, plight, predicament, quandary, scrape, trouble |
| Antonyms: | blessing, solution, success |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | riddle |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | brain-teaser |
| Synonyms: | bewilderment, brain-twister, charade, closed book, complexity, complication, confusion, conundrum, cryptogram, dilemma, distraction, doubt, embarrassment, enigma, entanglement, intricacy, knotty question, labyrinth, maze, mind-boggler, mystery, mystification, perplexity, plight, poser, predicament, problem, puzzle, puzzlement, quandary, question, rebus, sixty-four dollar question, stickler, strait, stumper, teaser, tough nut to crack, tough proposition, twister |
| Main Entry: | spot |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bad situation |
| Synonyms: | box*, corner*, difficulty, dilemma, fix, hole*, jam, mess, pickle, plight, predicament, quandary, scrape, trouble |
| Antonyms: | benefit, boon, success |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | uncertainty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | doubt, changeableness |
| Synonyms: | ambiguity, ambivalence, anxiety, bewilderment, concern, confusion, conjecture, contingency, dilemma, disquiet, distrust, doubtfulness, dubiety, guesswork, hesitancy, hesitation, incertitude, inconclusiveness, indecision, irresolution, lack of confidence, misgiving, mistrust, mystification, oscillation, perplexity, puzzle, puzzlement, qualm, quandary, query, questionableness, reserve, scruple, skepticism, suspicion, trouble, uneasiness, unpredictability, vagueness, wonder, worry |
| Antonyms: | certainty, definiteness, security, sureness |
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