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plights

plights is the plural of plight.

plights is the third-person singular simple present indicative of plight.

Meaning of plight

Noun (1)

plight (plural plights)

  1. A dire or unfortunate situation.
    • Though we say we are quite clear about it and understand when someone uses the expression, unlike that other expression, maybe we're in the same plight with regard to them both.2005, Plato, translated by Lesley Brown, Sophist, page 243c
  2. (archaic) A (neutral) condition or state.
    • although hee live in as good plight and health as may be, yet he chafeth, he scoldeth, he brawleth, he fighteth, he sweareth, and biteth, as the most boistrous and tempestuous master of France[…].1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 8, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC
  3. (obsolete) Good health.
    • All wayes shee sought him to restore to plight, / With herbs, with charms, with counsel, and with teares[…].1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Noun (2)

plight (plural plights)

  1. (dialectal) Responsibility for ensuing consequences; risk; danger; peril.
  2. (dialectal) An instance of danger or peril; a dangerous moment or situation.
  3. (dialectal) Blame; culpability; fault; wrong-doing; sin; crime.

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Questions about plights

What is plights the plural of?
Plights is the plural of plight.

Words near plights in the dictionary

  1. plightful
  2. plighting
  3. plightings
  4. plightless
  5. plightly
  6. plights
  7. plighty
  8. pligs
  9. plim
  10. plimmed
  11. Plimmer

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