Situation
[sɪtjʊ'eɪʃ(ə)n] or [,sɪtʃu'eʃən]
Definition
(noun.) a condition or position in which you find yourself; 'the unpleasant situation (or position) of having to choose between two evils'; 'found herself in a very fortunate situation'.
(noun.) the general state of things; the combination of circumstances at a given time; 'the present international situation is dangerous'; 'wondered how such a state of affairs had come about'; 'eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation'- Franklin D.Roosevelt.
(noun.) a complex or critical or unusual difficulty; 'the dangerous situation developed suddenly'; 'that's quite a situation'; 'no human situation is simple'.
Checker: Presley--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) Manner in which an object is placed; location, esp. as related to something else; position; locality site; as, a house in a pleasant situation.
(n.) Position, as regards the conditions and circumstances of the case.
(n.) Relative position; circumstances; temporary state or relation at a moment of action which excites interest, as of persons in a dramatic scene.
(n.) Permanent position or employment; place; office; as, a situation in a store; a situation under government.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Place, locality, station, location, site, position, seat, ground, spot.[2]. Condition, state, plight, case, predicament, category, circumstances.[3]. Post, station, office, BERTH, employment.
Checker: Shari
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Locality, position, top, {[litmjihy]?}, site, seat, post, place, condition,residence, aspect, footing, office, birth, plight, predicament, standing
ANT:Non-situation, non-location, absence, nonassignment, unfixedness, displacement,dislodgment
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Examples
- There is something terribly appalling in our situation, yet my courage and hopes do not desert me. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- With his usual thoughtfulness, he had provided for her independence in this situation. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- She saw clearly enough the whole situation, yet she was fettered: she could not smite the stricken soul that entreated hers. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- She had not thought of her own situation at all: she was simply engrossed in trying to put a little order in theirs. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Once the grotesqueness of the situation accepted, she had seen at a glance that it was the safest in which Dorset could find himself. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Paler than marble, with white lips and convulsed features, Idris became aware of my situation. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Their situation was awkward enough; but _hers_ she thought was still worse. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Important witnesses; saw you in a delicate situation. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Her life was ebbing fast, when her friends acceded to her earnest desire to be removed to a more airy situation. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- I have told your ladyship that I should be placed in a very disagreeable situation if any complaint was made, and all is in strict confidence. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The rent of land not only varies with its fertility, whatever be its produce, but with its situation, whatever be its fertility. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Recourse to the primitive may furnish the fundamental elements of the present situation in immensely simplified form. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Ladies,' roared Mr. Pickwick, rendered desperate by the danger of his situation. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- They are subordinate to the situation, therefore, not the situation to them. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- You will understand me better after that, and our situation will not be so wretched as it is now. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- It was very funny, full of amusing and absurd situations; but Gould never smiled once. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- How little practice he had had in dealing with unusual situations! Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- These three relations are identity, the situations in time and place, and causation. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Nor I, answered Marianne with energy, our situations then are alike. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- There is a definite way of understanding the situations in which the habit operates. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- You have, undoubtedly; and there are situations in which very high spirits would denote insensibility. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- He is developing his idea gradually in a series of positions or situations. Plato. The Republic.
- But usually--at least in complicated situations--acting upon it brings to light conditions which had been overlooked. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Till they are applied in these situations they lack full point and reality. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- In some particular local situations it is quite otherwise, and the rent and profit of grass are much superior to what can be made by corn. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Except in particular situations, therefore, the rent of corn land regulates in Europe that of all other cultivated land. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- If _we_ set the example, many will follow it as far as they can; though all have not our situations. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Recognition of the natural course of development, on the contrary, always sets out with situations which involve learning by doing. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- To rant, to rave, to be tragic, to make situations--it was all too late. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- They are standpoints and methods for dealing with situations of experience. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
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