Plight vs. Difficulty
Plightnoun
A dire or unfortunate situation.
Plightnoun
A (neutral) condition or state.
Plightnoun
(obsolete) Good health.
Plightnoun
Responsibility for ensuing consequences; risk; danger; peril.
Plightnoun
An instance of danger or peril; a dangerous moment or situation.
Plightnoun
Blame; culpability; fault; wrong-doing; sin; crime.
Plightnoun
One's office; duty; charge.
Plightnoun
(archaic) That which is exposed to risk; that which is plighted or pledged; security; a gage; a pledge.
Plightnoun
(obsolete) A network; a plait; a fold; rarely a garment.
Plightverb
To expose to risk; to pledge.
Plightverb
(transitive) Specifically, to pledge (one's troth etc.) as part of a marriage ceremony.
Plightverb
(reflexive) To promise (oneself) to someone, or to do something.
Plightverb
(obsolete) To weave; to braid; to fold; to plait.
Plight
imp. & p. p. of Plight, to pledge.
Plight
imp. & p. p. of Pluck.
Plightverb
To weave; to braid; to fold; to plait.
Plightverb
To pledge; to give as a pledge for the performance of some act; as, to plight faith, honor, word; - never applied to property or goods.
Plightverb
To promise; to engage; to betroth.
Plightnoun
A network; a plait; a fold; rarely a garment.
Plightnoun
That which is exposed to risk; that which is plighted or pledged; security; a gage; a pledge.
Plightnoun
Condition; state; - risk, or exposure to danger, often being implied; as, a luckless plight.
Plightnoun
a situation from which extrication is difficult especially an unpleasant or trying one;
Plightnoun
a solemn pledge of fidelity
Plightverb
give to in marriage
Plightverb
promise solemnly and formally;
Difficultynoun
The state of being difficult, or hard to do.
Difficultynoun
An obstacle that hinders achievement of a goal.
Difficultynoun
Physical danger from the environment, especially with risk of drowning
Difficultynoun
The state of being difficult, or hard to do; hardness; arduousness; - opposed to easiness or facility; as, the difficulty of a task or enterprise; a work of difficulty.
Difficultynoun
Something difficult; a thing hard to do or to understand; that which occasions labor or perplexity, and requires skill and perseverance to overcome, solve, or achieve; a hard enterprise; an obstacle; an impediment; as, the difficulties of a science; difficulties in theology.
Difficultynoun
A controversy; a falling out; a disagreement; an objection; a cavil.
Difficultynoun
Embarrassment of affairs, especially financial affairs; - usually in the plural; as, to be in difficulties.
Difficultynoun
an effort that is inconvenient;
Difficultynoun
a factor causing trouble in achieving a positive result or tending to produce a negative result;
Difficultynoun
a condition or state of affairs almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring great effort to bear or overcome;
Difficultynoun
the quality of being difficult;
