plight
/plaɪt/noun
उच्चारण प्लाइट
दुर्दशा, दयनीय स्थिति
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[sing.]
a difficult and sad situation
दुर्दशा, दयनीय स्थिति
- the plight of the flood victims
- The newspaper highlighted the plight of daily-wage workers during the lockdown.
- The plight of stray animals in winter moved many volunteers to act.
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- Radhika wrote an essay on the plight of farmers after a failed monsoon.
- Nobody seemed to care about the plight of the homeless family.
Synonyms predicament difficulty trouble dilemma hardship
Opposite comfort prosperity well-being ease
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[T] ~ your troth old use
to make a promise to a person saying that you will marry them
(विवाह का) वचन देना
- They plighted their troth.
- The ballad tells how the soldier plighted his troth to a village girl before leaving for the front.
- In the old poem, the knight plights his troth to the princess at dawn.
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- The couple plighted their troth in a quiet ceremony by the river.
≈Synonyms and antonyms
Synonyms
predicament difficulty trouble dilemma hardship pledge promise vow
Antonyms
comfort prosperity well-being ease
AaSpelling
Plight, with silent -gh- (like light, fight, might).
Plight, silent -gh- के साथ (light, fight, might की तरह)।
?Which word?
Keep the difficult-situation words together: plight (sad and difficult), predicament (difficult and hard to escape), quandary (not knowing what to do), dilemma (a choice between two bad options), straits.
कठिन स्थिति के शब्द साथ याद रखिए: plight (दुखद और कठिन), predicament (कठिन और निकलना मुश्किल), quandary (क्या करें पता न हो), dilemma (दो बुरे विकल्पों में चुनाव), straits।
“Collocations, idioms and sayings
The plight of the poor, the plight of farmers, a sorry plight.
Collocations: the plight of the poor (गरीबों की दुर्दशा), the plight of farmers (किसानों की बुरी हालत), a sorry plight (दयनीय स्थिति)।