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pickle

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of pickle

a difficult, puzzling, or embarrassing situation from which there is no easy escape

well, this is a bit of a pickle weʼve gotten ourselves into

Synonyms of pickle

bind, box, catch-22, corner, dilemma, fix, hole, impasse, jackpot [chiefly West], jam, mire, predicament, quagmire, rabbit hole, rattrap, spot, sticky wicket, swamp

Words Related to pickle

difficulty, node

hot water, soup

pinch, plight, quandary, scrape, trouble

deadlock, halt, logjam, stalemate, standstill

clutch, crisis, crossroad, emergency, exigency, juncture, strait

Phrases Synonymous with pickle

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