Plightful
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Full of risk or danger; risky; dangerous; perilous.
"This is their doom that here in sin Lie and their sins will not cease; But would they think about Judgment Day, It behooves them to leave their plightful play."
- 2 Indicating plight; dire; grim; grievous.
"For example, poor villagers can destroy the forests because of their plightful conditions."
- 3 Full of plight; plighted; pledged; devoted.
"She liv'd and lov'd.―I wedded two. 'The Devil!'―Yes. What could I do? To her I ow'd my plightful vow, To Ruth, my life, and freedom now."
- 4 Pitiful.
"In some surreal and inevitable moment, some jingle-jangle wee hour of morning, they may even have shared billing on the same campus stage: joined harmonics and harmonics, strummed out some plightful version of "Musee des Beaux Arts" [...]"
Example
More examples"This is their doom that here in sin Lie and their sins will not cease; But would they think about Judgment Day, It behooves them to leave their plightful play."
Etymology
From Middle English plightful, plihtful, equivalent to plight + -ful.
From plight + -ful.
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