difficulty vs plight

plight vs difficulty

difficulty and plight both are nouns.

difficulty is not a verb while plight is a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
difficulty	Yes	No	No	No
plight	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, plight is a hyponym of difficulty; that is, plight is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than difficulty:

difficulty: the quality of being almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring a great effort to achieve a positive result
plight: a situation from which extrication is difficult especially an unpleasant or trying one

Other hyponyms of difficulty include effortfulness, asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severeness, severity, hardness, ruggedness, formidability, toughness, burdensomeness, heaviness, onerousness, oppressiveness, niceness, subtlety, inconvenience, troublesomeness, worriment, problem, trouble, facer, killer, kink, pisser, booby trap, pitfall, snorter, balk, baulk, check, deterrent, handicap, hinderance, hindrance, impediment, wrinkle, bitch, predicament, quandary, rattrap, pinch, fix, hole, jam, kettle of fish, mess, muddle, pickle, hard time, rough sledding, strain, stress, mire, job, problem, situation, urinary hesitancy, wall, thorniness.

difficulty (noun)	plight (noun)
an effort that is inconvenient	a solemn pledge of fidelity
the quality of being almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring a great effort to achieve a positive result	a situation from which extrication is difficult especially an unpleasant or trying one

difficulty (verb)	plight (verb)
	promise solemnly and formally
	give to in marriage

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