Dictionary Entry
plight
plight is a 6-letter English word with 12 senses as transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: imp. & p. p. of Plight, to pledge. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 14 · 12 senses
Definitions
- 1
imp. & p. p. of Plight, to pledge.
- 2
imp. & p. p. of Pluck.
- 3transitive verb
To weave; to braid; to fold; to plait.
- 4noun
A network; a plait; a fold; rarely a garment.
- 5noun
That which is exposed to risk; that which is plighted or pledged; security; a gage; a pledge.
- 6noun
Condition; state; -- risk, or exposure to danger, often being implied; as, a luckless plight.
- 7noun
To pledge; to give as a pledge for the performance of some act; as, to plight faith, honor, word; -- never applied to property or goods.
- 8noun
To promise; to engage; to betroth.
- 9noun
a solemn pledge of fidelity
Synonyms
- 10noun
a situation from which extrication is difficult especially an unpleasant or trying one
"finds himself in a most awkward predicament"
"the woeful plight of homeless people"
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- 11verb
promise solemnly and formally
"I pledge that I will honor my wife"
Synonyms
- 12verb
give to in marriage
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