plightful

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Full of risk or danger

   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.
   • Athelstan said, in a much more serious way, “It is truly a plightful time for the Angles, and it always has been, as far back as I can remember. The Northmen kill or at least mar all that they touch.
2. 2

   Full of plight

   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.
3. 3

   Indicating plight

   Indicating plight; dire; grim; grievous.

   • For example, poor villagers can destroy the forests because of their plightful conditions.
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   1. 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" [...]

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