different between risky vs plightful

English

Etymology

risk +? -y

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???ski/
• Rhymes: -?ski

Adjective

risky (comparative riskier, superlative riskiest)

1. Dangerous, involving risks.

   Investing in this start-up company could be risky.

2. Misspelling of risqué.
   • 2012, Marlize Schmidt, That Awkward Moment..., Lulu Press, Inc (?ISBN)

     That awkward moment when someone doesn't reply to your risky text message.

   • 1889, Charles Leonard Moore, Banquet of Palacios: A Comedy, page 157:

     Have you no risky songs , no indecent ballads?

   • 2020, B. Barrett-Lennard, Mind Control Through the Mass Media: Transmission of the Politics of Inequality, B. Barrett-Lennard (?ISBN)

     Ronald Frankau (pronounced Franco) wrote a few risky songs, such as FANNY'S BEEN EVACUATED NOW with the line “and for half a pound of butter, well a lady's got to eat” ~ he got banned for it.

Synonyms

• hazardous, dangerous, perilous

Antonyms

• riskless, safe, secure

Related terms

• risk
• riskily
• riskiness
• risqué

Translations

Anagrams

• yirks

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English plightful, plihtful, equivalent to plight +? -ful.

Adjective

plightful (comparative more plightful, superlative most plightful)

1. Full of risk or danger; risky; dangerous; perilous.
   • 1965, Francis X. Corrigan, Middle English readings in translation:

     This is their doom that here in sin Lie and their sins will not cease; But would they think about Judgment Day, It behooves them to leave their plightful play.

   • 2005, Curt Bissonette, Noble Stone:

     Athelstan said, in a much more serious way, “It is truly a plightful time for the Angles, and it always has been, as far back as I can remember. The Northmen kill or at least mar all that they touch.

2. Full of plight; plighted; pledged; devoted.
   • 1866, Henry J. Verlander, The bride of Rougemont:

     She liv'd and lov'd.?I wedded two. 'The Devil!'?Yes. What could I do? To her I ow'd my plightful vow, To Ruth, my life, and freedom now.

Etymology 2

From plight +? -ful.

Adjective

plightful (comparative more plightful, superlative most plightful)

1. Indicating plight; dire; grim; grievous.
   • 2009, Dr. Ulas Basar Gezgin, Vietnam & Asia in Flux, 2008:

     For example, poor villagers can destroy the forests because of their plightful conditions.

2. Pitiful.
   • 1972, Commonweal: Volume 96:

     In some surreal and inevitable moment, some jingle-jangle wee hour of morning, they may even have shared billing on the same campus stage: joined harmonics and harmonics, strummed out some plightful version of "Musee des Beaux Arts" [...]