plit (“fold, wrinkle, bad situation”), conflation of Middle English pliht, <span class="searchmatch">plight</span> (“risky promise, peril”) (from Old English pliht "danger, risk"; see Etymology 2)...
<span class="searchmatch">plights</span> plural of <span class="searchmatch">plight</span> <span class="searchmatch">plights</span> third-person singular simple present indicative of <span class="searchmatch">plight</span>...
From <span class="searchmatch">plight</span> (“plait, fold”) + -ed. <span class="searchmatch">plighted</span> (comparative more <span class="searchmatch">plighted</span>, superlative most <span class="searchmatch">plighted</span>) (obsolete) Having <span class="searchmatch">plights</span>; pleated; plated; folded...
perilous”), equivalent to <span class="searchmatch">plight</span> + -ly. <span class="searchmatch">plightly</span> (comparative plightlier or more <span class="searchmatch">plightly</span>, superlative plightliest or most <span class="searchmatch">plightly</span>) Dangerously; with peril...
<span class="searchmatch">plighting</span> present participle and gerund of <span class="searchmatch">plight</span> <span class="searchmatch">plighting</span> (plural <span class="searchmatch">plightings</span>) The act by which something is <span class="searchmatch">plighted</span> or pledged. 1840, Leigh Hunt, The...
<span class="searchmatch">plighters</span> plural of <span class="searchmatch">plighter</span> prelights...
<span class="searchmatch">plightings</span> plural of <span class="searchmatch">plighting</span>...
From <span class="searchmatch">plight</span> + -er. IPA(key): /ˈplaɪtə(ɹ)/ Rhymes: -aɪtə(ɹ) <span class="searchmatch">plighter</span> (plural <span class="searchmatch">plighters</span>) One who or that which <span class="searchmatch">plights</span>, engages, or pledges. c. 1606–1607...
pliskie (plural pliskies) A condition or <span class="searchmatch">plight</span>. A mischievous trick....
plyȝtles, equivalent to <span class="searchmatch">plight</span> + -less. plightless (comparative more plightless, superlative most plightless) Devoid of <span class="searchmatch">plight</span> 2013, Martin Heidegger...