plightless

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adjective

Devoid of plight

OriginMiddle English plightles →
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Meanings

adjectiveplightless (comparative more plightless, superlative most plightless)

comparative more plightless · superlative most plightless

  1. Devoid of plight

    Finally arrives the prospect of storing up a “potentiality” of powers which can be sufficient, in the most plightless moment of the age of the complete lack of a sense of plight, to deliver up the globe, along with its atmosphere, to an explosive charge.

    2013, Martin Heidegger, The Event, page 85

Origin

  1. Middle Englishplightles
  2. Englishplightless

From Middle English plightles, plyȝtles, equivalent to plight + -less.

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APA

plightless. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/plightless

MLA

“plightless.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/plightless. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “plightless,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/plightless.

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