under the circumstances

1. 1.

   because of prevailing conditions

   “under the circumstances I cannot buy the house”

Questions about under the circumstances

What does under the circumstances mean?

under the circumstances means "because of prevailing conditions".

Is under the circumstances a common word?

under the circumstances is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.