Plightful

Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective

Meaning

Full of risk or danger; risky; dangerous; perilous..

Definitions by Sense

1. Full of risk or danger; risky; dangerous; perilous.
2. Full of plight; plighted; pledged; devoted.
3. Indicating plight; dire; grim; grievous.
4. Pitiful.

Example Sentences

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.

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.

For example, poor villagers can destroy the forests because of their plightful conditions.

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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• more plightful
• most plightful

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