Word Type

Noun

The word "situation" can be used as a noun.

Word Relationships

Capable Of

anger human get interesting go south turn bad

Derived Terms

chicken-and-egg situation clinical situation in-basket situation interesting situation limit situation no-win situation seatbelt situation situation awareness situation room situation theory situational situationism situationship special situation sticky situation

Context

uk

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

business condition difficultness difficulty job line line of work occupation place position state status

Type Of (IsA)

condition difficulty state

Receives Action

described as desperate

Related Terms

sitcom site situate situated situation comedy

Related Terms

circumstance location post site situate situated situation comedy situationism state of affairs status

Synonym Network

condition position site

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.