plightful

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Full of risk or danger; risky; dangerous; perilous.
    — 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.
  2. Indicating plight; dire; grim; grievous.
    — For example, poor villagers can destroy the forests because of their plightful conditions.
  3. Full of plight; plighted; pledged; devoted.
    — 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.
  4. Pitiful.
    — 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" [...]

词形变化

more plightful comparative most plightful superlative more plightful comparative most plightful superlative

词源

词源 1
From Middle English plightful, plihtful, equivalent to plight + -ful.
词源 2
From plight + -ful.
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