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plighty

plighty adjective: relating to or indicating plight; misfortunate; dire; precarious; needy.

Adjective

plighty (comparative plightier or more plighty, superlative plightiest or most plighty)

  1. Relating to or indicating plight; misfortunate; dire; precarious; needy
    • [...] — as the company is so small, the impresario is in a continual flap, having to nurse his people as much as he can, in case some sudden illness should fling him into the plightiest of plights, not being able to mount any show at all!1981, Julian Rushton, W. A. Mozart: Don Giovanni
    • The government it can give, it loves to give to everybody, but if the government gives away that money, spreads all its money to the plighty, you know, it goes down.1999, Ronaldo Munck, Denis O'Hearn, Critical Development Theory: Contributions to a New Paradigm

Forms of plighty

comparativeplightier
comparativemore plighty
superlativeplightiest
superlativemost plighty

Origin of plighty

From Middle English plighty, plighti, equivalent to plight + -y.

Words that rhyme with plighty

Questions about plighty

What does plighty mean?
Plighty means relating to or indicating plight; misfortunate; dire; precarious; needy.
What part of speech is plighty?
Plighty is an adjective.

Words near plighty in the dictionary

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

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