plight
11plight — I noun adverse circumstance, adversity, awkward situation, case, circumstance, condition, corner, crisis, critical situation, difficulty, dilemma, embarrassing position, embarrassing situation, emergency, footing, hardship, imbroglio, lot,… …
12plight — [n] dilemma, difficulty; situation bad news*, circumstances, condition, corner*, double trouble*, extremity, fix*, hole*, impasse, jam, perplexity, pickle*, pinch*, predicament, quandary, scrape*, spot*, state*, straits, tight situation, trouble; …
13plight — 01. We saw an excellent program on television regarding the [plight] of endangered animals in this country. 02. People with eating disorders sometimes don t realize their [plight] until it is too late. 03. The [plight] of the poor seems to have… …
14plight — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ desperate, sad, sorry, tragic ▪ the desperate plight of flood victims ▪ current ▪ economic …
15plight — plight1 [plaıt] n [usually singular] [Date: 1300 1400; : Anglo French; Origin: plit, from Latin plictus; PLAIT] a very bad situation that someone is in plight of ▪ the desperate plight of the flood victims ▪ the country s economic plight plight 2 …
16plight´er — plight1 «plyt», noun. a condition or situation, now usually bad: »He was in a sad plight when he became ill and had no money. I think myself in better plight for a lender than you are (Shakespeare). SYNONYM(S): dilemma, scrape, fix. See syn.… …
17plight — plight1 [ plaıt ] noun count * a sad, serious, or difficult situation: the plight of the poor/homeless/unemployed plight plight 2 [ plaıt ] verb transitive plight your troth an old expression meaning to promise to marry someone …
18plight — {{11}}plight (n.) condition or state (usually bad), late 12c., from Anglo Fr. plit, O.Fr. pleit condition (13c.), originally way of folding, from V.L. *plictum, from L. plicitum, neut. pp. of L. plicare to fold, lay (see PLY (Cf. ply) (v.)).… …
19plight — I [[t]plaɪt[/t]] n. a distressing condition or situation: to be left in a sorry plight[/ex] • Etymology: 1350–1400; ME plit fold, condition, bad condition < AF (c. MF pleit plait); sp. appar. influenced by plight II in obs. sense “danger” syn …
20plight — I. transitive verb Etymology: Middle English, from Old English plihtan to endanger, from pliht danger; akin to Old English plēon to expose to danger, Old High German pflegan to take care of Date: 13th century to put or give in pledge ; engage <… …
