Usually means: Difficult situation needing urgent resolution.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word plight:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. plight: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. plight, plight: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. plight, plight: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. plight: Collins English Dictionary
  5. plight: Vocabulary.com
  6. Plight, plight: Wordnik
  7. plight: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. plight: Wiktionary
  9. plight: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. plight: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. plight: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Plight, plight: Dictionary.com
  13. plight (n.), plight (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. plight: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Plight: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. plight: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. plight: Rhymezone
  18. plight: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. plight: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. plight: Free Dictionary
  21. plight: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. plight: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. plight: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. plight: Encyclopedia

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  1. plight: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. plight: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See plighted as well.)

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noun:  A dire or unfortunate situation.
noun:  (now rare) A (neutral) condition or state.
noun:  (obsolete) Good health.
noun:  (now chiefly dialectal) Responsibility for ensuing consequences; risk; danger; peril.
noun:  (now chiefly dialectal) An instance of danger or peril; a dangerous moment or situation.
noun:  (now chiefly dialectal) Blame; culpability; fault; wrong-doing; sin; crime.
noun:  (now chiefly dialectal) One's office; duty; charge.
noun:  (archaic) That which is exposed to risk; that which is plighted or pledged; security; a gage; a pledge.
verb:  (transitive, now rare) To expose to risk; to pledge.
verb:  (transitive) Specifically, to pledge (one's troth etc.) as part of a marriage ceremony.
verb:  (reflexive) To promise (oneself) to someone, or to do something.
verb:  (obsolete) To weave; to braid; to fold; to plait.
noun:  (obsolete) A network; a plait; a fold; rarely a garment.

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