situation vs how-d'ye-do

how-d'ye-do vs situation

situation and how-d'ye-do both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
situation	Yes	No	No	No
how-d'ye-do	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, how-d'ye-do is a hyponym of situation; that is, how-d'ye-do is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than situation:

situation: a complex or critical or unusual difficulty
how-d'ye-do: an awkward situation

Other hyponyms of situation include conflict of interest, crisis, crunch, hornet's nest, hornets' nest, hot potato, how-do-you-do, embroilment, imbroglio, Mexican standoff, incubus, nightmare, no-win situation, pass, strait, straits, purgatory, swamp, ticking bomb, time bomb, tinderbox, urgency, dead end, deadlock, impasse, stalemate, standstill, quicksand.

situation (noun)	how-d'ye-do (noun)
a job in an organization	an awkward situation
physical position in relation to the surroundings
the general state of things; the combination of circumstances at a given time
a condition or position in which you find yourself
a complex or critical or unusual difficulty

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