Sinister vs Plight - What's the difference?

In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between sinister and plight

is that sinister is (obsolete) wrong, as springing from indirection or obliquity; perverse; dishonest while plight is (obsolete) a network; a plait; a fold; rarely a garment.

As an adjective sinister

is inauspicious]], ominous, unlucky, illegitimate (as in [[w:bar sinister|bar sinister ).

As a noun plight is

a dire or unfortunate situation or plight can be responsibility for ensuing consequences; risk; danger; peril or plight can be (obsolete) a network; a plait; a fold; rarely a garment.

As a verb plight is

to expose to risk; to pledge or plight can be (obsolete) to weave; to braid; to fold; to plait.

sinister

English

Alternative forms

* sinistre (obsolete)

Adjective

(en adjective)

Inauspicious]], ominous, unlucky, illegitimate (as in [[w:bar sinister, bar sinister ).

* Ben Jonson

All the several ills that visit earth, / Brought forth by night, with a sinister birth.

*'>citation

Evil or seemingly evil; indicating lurking danger or harm.

sinister influences

the sinister atmosphere of the crypt

Of the left side.

* Shakespeare

Here on his sinister cheek.

* Shakespeare

My mother's blood / Runs on the dexter cheek, and this sinister / Bounds in my father's.

* 1911 , (Saki), ‘The Unrest-Cure’, The Chronicles of Clovis :

Before the train had stopped he had decorated his sinister shirt-cuff with the inscription, ‘J. P. Huddle, The Warren, Tilfield, near Slowborough.’

(heraldry) On the left side of a shield from the wearer's standpoint, and the right side to the viewer.

(obsolete) Wrong, as springing from indirection or obliquity; perverse; dishonest.

* Francis Bacon

Nimble and sinister tricks and shifts.

* South

He scorns to undermine another's interest by any sinister or inferior arts.

* Sir Walter Scott

He read in their looks sinister intentions directed particularly toward himself.

Antonyms

* (of the right side): dexter * (heraldry): dexter

Derived terms

* bar sinister * baton sinister * bend sinister * sinister aspect * sinister base * sinister chief * sinistral

Anagrams

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plight

English

Etymology 1

(etyl) ).

Noun

(en noun)

A dire or unfortunate situation.

*{{quote-news, year=2011, date=December 10, author=Arindam Rej, work=BBC Sport

, title= 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. ¶ Gosling's plight worsened when he was soon shown a red card for a foul on Martin.}}

*2005 , Lesley Brown, translating Plato, Sophist , :

*: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.

*, II.8:

*: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 .

(obsolete) Good health.

*1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.7:

*:All wayes shee sought him to restore to plight , / With herbs, with charms, with counsel, and with teares.

Etymology 2

From (etyl) . More at pledge.

Noun

(en noun)

Responsibility for ensuing consequences; risk; danger; peril.

An instance of danger or peril; a dangerous moment or situation.

Blame; culpability; fault; wrong-doing; sin; crime.

One's office; duty; charge.

(archaic) That which is exposed to risk; that which is plighted or pledged; security; a gage; a pledge.

* Shakespeare

that lord whose hand must take my plight

Derived terms

* (l) * (l)

Verb

(en verb)

To expose to risk; to pledge.

Specifically, to pledge (one's troth etc.) as part of a marriage ceremony.

(reflexive) To promise (oneself) to someone, or to do something.

* 1992 , Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety , Harper Perennial 2007, p. 226:

I ask what I have done to deserve it, one daughter hobnobbing with radicals and the other planning to plight herself to a criminal.

Derived terms

* (l)

Etymology 3

Through (etyl), from (etyl) and Danish flette are probably unrelated.

Verb

(en verb)

(obsolete) To weave; to braid; to fold; to plait.

* Milton

A plighted garment of divers colors.

Noun

(en noun)

(obsolete) A network; a plait; a fold; rarely a garment.

* Spenser

Many a folded plight .