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Synonyms for plight
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Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
plightnoun
Synonyms:
situation, condition, predicament, difficulty, dilemmaplightverb
Princeton's WordNet
predicament, quandary, plightnoun
a situation from which extrication is difficult especially an unpleasant or trying one
"finds himself in a most awkward predicament"; "the woeful plight of homeless people"
Synonyms:
quandary, predicament, dilemma, trothplight, trothverb
a solemn pledge of fidelity
Synonyms:
quandary, betrothal, predicament, engagement, trothbetroth, engage, affiance, plightverb
give to in marriage
Synonyms:
rent, prosecute, occupy, engross, charter, mesh, pledge, operate, employ, absorb, engage, affiance, hire, betroth, lock, take, wage, pursue, lease, enlistpledge, plightverb
promise solemnly and formally
"I pledge that I will honor my wife"
Synonyms:
betroth, engage, wassail, drink, salute, affiance, pledge, subscribe, toast
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Dictionary of English Synonymes
plightverb
Synonyms:
pledge, pawn, hypothecate, put in pledge, give as securityplightnoun
plightnoun
Synonyms:
condition, state, situation, case, predicament, category, dilemma, FIX, PICKLE
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
Words popularity by usage frequency
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#246 | take | |
#867 | subscribe | |
#1067 | condition | |
#1637 | rent | |
#1902 | situation | |
#2197 | hire | |
#2724 | drink | |
#3241 | mesh | |
#3411 | lock | |
#3789 | charter | |
#3943 | operate | |
#4128 | lease | |
#5311 | difficulty | |
#5323 | wage | |
#5546 | engagement | |
#5907 | suffering | |
#6220 | engage | |
#6986 | spell | |
#7546 | pursue | |
#7888 | fate | |
#8886 | pledge | |
#9099 | employ | |
#12669 | distress | |
#13157 | toast | |
#13532 | dilemma | |
#15487 | misery | |
#15816 | absorb | |
#15899 | occupy | |
#18518 | salute | |
#18786 | hardship | |
#22266 | plight | |
#24560 | vow | |
#24818 | prosecute | |
#29653 | ordeal | |
#32537 | enlist | |
#38996 | predicament | |
#58056 | quandary | |
#113321 | troth | |
#117013 | betrothal | |
#133273 | wassail | |
#233923 | engross | |
#319633 | betroth |
How to use plight in a sentence?
We're doing our part from wherever we are around the world to bring light into the Venezuelan plight. And there's invaders in our embassy that are not Venezuelans, this is the Venezuelan people for Venezuelan democracy ; this is not about right or left in the world. I hope and I beg that people don't use my country and the suffering of my people for their own personal flags that have nothing to do with what's going on.
After time, after so much footage of dead bodies washing up on the shores ... you just become desensitized to the whole issue, i realize that this film can have an impact on people, on how they view the plight of refugees, and that's what it's all about.
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Blackjewel failed to pay them for weeks of hard work and the way the company filed for bankruptcy prevents miners from accessing their 401ks, making it even harder for them to feed their families during this trying time, what this company is doing to them is wrong -- and I am doing everything I can through my office to help these families. Every Kentuckian should see their plight and support them.
The Amazon rainforest is firmly established in the psyche of many for decades now, and rightly so -- The Amazon rainforest's suffering a desperate plight of The Amazon rainforest own, but there are other ecosystems that are disappearing, and we learn about what they are too late.
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