plight

1. 1.

   give to in marriage

   Synonymsbetrothengageaffiance

   Broadervow
2. 2.

   promise solemnly and formally

   “I pledge that I will honor my wife”

   Synonymspledge

   Broaderpromise

   Narrowervowguaranteecovenant

Other forms of plight

plural

plights·

past tense

plighted·

present participle

plighting·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about plight

What does plight mean?

plight means "a situation from which extrication is difficult especially an unpleasant or trying one". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in plight?

plight has 1 syllable: plight. In IPA it is /ˈplaɪt/.

What is another word for plight?

Close synonyms include predicament, quandary, troth, betroth, engage. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is plight a common word?

plight is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with plight?

1 word rhymes with plight. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.