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Grim vs Plightful - What's the difference?

grim | plightful |

As a proper noun grim

is , probably derived from old english grimm' or old norse '''grimr''' or ' grimmr .

As an adjective plightful is

full of risk or danger; risky; dangerous; perilous or plightful can be indicating plight; dire; grim; grievous.

grim

English

Adjective

(grimmer)
  • dismal and gloomy, cold and forbidding
    • Life was grim in many northern industrial towns.
  • rigid and unrelenting
    • His grim determination enabled him to win.
  • ghastly or sinister
    • A grim castle overshadowed the village.
  • * 2012 March 22, Scott Tobias, “ The Hunger Games''”, in ''AV Club :
    • In movie terms, it suggests Paul Verhoeven in Robocop/Starship Troopers mode, an R-rated bloodbath where the grim spectacle of children murdering each other on television is bread-and-circuses for the age of reality TV, enforced by a totalitarian regime to keep the masses at bay.
  • (UK, slang) disgusting; gross
    • Wanna see the dead rat I found in my fridge? —Mate, that is grim !

    plightful

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) plihtful, equivalent to .

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Full of risk or danger; risky; dangerous; perilous.
  • *1965 , Francis X. Corrigan, Middle English readings in translation :
    • 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.
  • *2005 , Curt Bissonette, Noble Stone :
    • 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.
  • Full of plight; plighted; pledged; devoted.
  • *1866 , Henry J. Verlander, The bride of Rougemont :
    • 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.

    Etymology 2

    From .

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Indicating plight; dire; grim; grievous.
  • *2009 , Dr. Ulas Basar Gezgin, Vietnam & Asia in Flux, 2008 :
    • For example, poor villagers can destroy the forests because of their plightful conditions.
  • Pitiful.
  • *1972 , Commonweal: Volume 96:
    • 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" [...]