Dire vs Plightful - What's the difference?
dire | plightful |
Warning of bad consequences: ill-boding; portentous.
Requiring action to prevent bad consequences: urgent, pressing.
*{{quote-magazine, date=2014-06-14, volume=411, issue=8891, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= Expressing bad consequences: dreadful; dismal; horrible; terrible; lamentable.
(label) Bad in quality, awful, terrible.
* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=December 10, author=Arindam Rej, work=BBC Sport
, title= Full of risk or danger; risky; dangerous; perilous.
*1965 , Francis X. Corrigan, Middle English readings in translation :
*2005 , Curt Bissonette, Noble Stone :
Full of plight; plighted; pledged; devoted.
*1866 , Henry J. Verlander, The bride of Rougemont :
Indicating plight; dire; grim; grievous.
*2009 , Dr. Ulas Basar Gezgin, Vietnam & Asia in Flux, 2008 :
Pitiful.
*1972 , Commonweal: Volume 96:
As adjectives the difference between dire and plightful
is that dire is warning of bad consequences: ill-boding; portentous while plightful is full of risk or danger; risky; dangerous; perilous.dire
English
Adjective
(en-adj)It's a gas, passage=One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains.
Norwich 4-2 Newcastle, passage=A second Norwich goal in four minutes arrived after some dire Newcastle defending. Gosling gave the ball away with a sloppy back-pass, allowing Crofts to curl in a cross that the unmarked Morison powered in with a firm, 12-yard header.}}
Quotations
* (English Citations of "dire")Derived terms
* direful * direly * direness * dire sisters * dire straits * dire wolfSee also
* voir direAnagrams
* * * ----plightful
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) plihtful, equivalent to .Adjective
(en adjective)- 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.
- 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.
- 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)- For example, poor villagers can destroy the forests because of their plightful conditions.
- 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" [...]