Plightful vs Slightful - What's the difference?
plightful | slightful |
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 plightful and slightful
is that plightful is full of risk or danger; risky; dangerous; perilous or plightful can be indicating plight; dire; grim; grievous while slightful is .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" [...]
