plight vs difficultness
difficultness vs plightplight and difficultness both are nouns.
plight is a verb but difficultness is not a verb.
| Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| plight | Yes | No | Yes | No |
| difficultness | Yes | No | No | No |
As nouns,
difficultness is a hypernym of
plight; that is, difficultness is a
word with a broader meaning than plight:
- plight: a situation from which extrication is difficult especially an unpleasant or trying one
- difficultness: the quality of being almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring a great effort to achieve a positive result
Other hypernyms of plight include
difficulty.
| plight (noun) | difficultness (noun) |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| plight (verb) | difficultness (verb) |
|---|---|
| promise solemnly and formally | |
| give to in marriage |
Words related to "plight"
Words related to "difficultness"
- asperity
- balk
- baulk
- bitch
- booby trap
- burdensomeness
- check
- deterrent
- difficult
- difficulty
- effortfulness
- facer
- fix
- formidability
- grimness
- handicap
- hard
- hard time
- hardness
- hardship
- heaviness
- hinderance
- hindrance
- hole
- impediment
- inconvenience
- jam
- job
- kettle of fish
- killer
- kink
- mess
- mire
- muddle
- niceness
- onerousness
- oppressiveness
- pickle
- pinch
- pisser
- pitfall
- plight
- predicament
- problem
- quality
- quandary
- rattrap
- rigor
- rigorousness
- rigour
- rigourousness
- rough sledding
- ruggedness
- severeness
- severity
- situation
- snorter
- strain
- stress
- subtlety
- thorniness
- toughness
- trouble
- troublesomeness
- urinary hesitancy
- wall
- worriment
- wrinkle
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