Difference between Plight and Predicament

PLIGHT vs PREDICAMENT: NOUN

That which is exposed to risk; that which is plighted or pledged; security; a gage; a pledge.
An obsolete preterit and past participle of pluck.
A fold; a plait.
A good condition or state.
In particular— A bad condition or state; a distressed or distressing condition or predicament; misfortune.
Condition; position; state; situation; predicament.
A solemn promise or engagement concerning a matter of serious personal moment; solemn assurance or pledge.
Peril; danger; harm; damage.
A situation, especially a bad or unfortunate one. : predicament.
A solemn pledge, as of faith.
A situation from which extrication is difficult especially an unpleasant or trying one
A network; a plait; a fold; rarely a garment.
A solemn pledge of fidelity
An instance of danger or peril; a dangerous moment or situation.
Responsibility for ensuing consequences; risk; danger; peril.
Condition; state; -- risk, or exposure to danger, often being implied.

An unfortunate or trying position or condition; a tight spot.
See Category.
A class or kind described by any definite marks; hence, condition; particular situation or state; especially, an unfortunate or trying position or condition.
Synonyms Position, plight, case.
A dangerous or trying situation; an unpleasant position.
A definite class, state, or condition.
That which is predicated; a category.
One of the basic states or classifications described by Aristotle into which all things can be placed; a category.
A situation, especially an unpleasant, troublesome, or trying one, from which extrication is difficult.
A situation from which extrication is difficult especially an unpleasant or trying one
That which is predicated; specifically, in the Aristotelian philos., one of the ten categories. See category, 1.

To promise; to engage; to betroth.
To weave; to braid; to fold; to plait.
To pledge; to give as a pledge for the performance of some act; as, to plight faith, honor, word; -- never applied to property or goods.
To give or pledge (one's word or oath, for example).
To promise or bind by a solemn pledge, especially to betroth.

Imp. & p. p. of plight, to pledge.
Imp. & p. p. of pluck.
To engage by solemn promise; pledge; engage or bind one's self by pledging: as, to plight one's hand, word, honor, faith, truth, vows, etc.
Synonyms Pledge, Plight. Pledge is applied to property as well as to word, faith, truth, honor, etc. Plight is now chiefly poetic or rhetorical; to plight honor is, as it were, to deposit it in pledge for the performance of an act—not often for the truth of a statement—to be forfeited if the act is not performed.
To weave; plait; fold. See plait.
To combine or put together in one's mind.
(idiom) (plight (one's) troth) To become engaged to marry.
(idiom) (plight (one's) troth) To give one's solemn oath.

Tragedy, Dilemma, Misery, Ordeal, Hardship, Anguish, Fate, Situation, Betroth, Affiance, Engage, Pledge, Troth, Quandary, Predicament

Morass, Hardship, Ordeal, Mess, Malaise, Quagmire, Problem, Fate, Difficulties, Dilemmas, Conundrum, Dilemma, Situation, Plight, Quandary

Wretchedness, Suffering, Squalor, Tragedy, Dilemma, Misery, Ordeal, Hardship, Anguish, Fate, Betroth, Affiance, Pledge, Quandary, Predicament

Crunch, Trouble, Morass, Hardship, Ordeal, Mess, Malaise, Quagmire, Problem, Fate, Difficulties, Conundrum, Dilemma, Plight, Quandary

Surviving Katrina The plight of pets left behind.
The plight of most North Koreans is dire.
Hamp, but comes to identify with his plight.
State executives towards the plight of indigent persons.
The various disabilities on arrival aggravated their plight.
Her plight has prompted international expressions of support.
You could never understand us or our plight.".
His plight nonetheless evokes not sympathy, but pity.
There is at least one, if not several differences between the plight of immigrants and the plight of the unborn.
Pity does not see the cause of their plight, but only the plight itself.

Years ago, we found ourselves in a predicament.
Build a actual predicament out from your report.
This is the predicament that I am in.
But this predicament is not unique to coronaviruses.
You can see the duality of our predicament.
What links the predicament of exile to creativity?
But I have another perspective on this predicament.
They contacted Nancy Love and related their predicament.
Women in the same predicament must be different.
But their predicament of death and judgement is a microcosm of the predicament of the whole world.

How did Perry's concept of solecism influence Hall's definition of the predicament?
Is Manchester United's current predicament holding them back in the transfer market?
What does hamlet's brooding clarity about his predicament remind us of?
Can you do a little math to help us understand our predicament?
Do Mexicans appreciate the predicament of Central Americans passing through Mexico?
What was Ruffian trying to get up from her predicament?
Was Jabu Pule once in the same predicament as Lebese?
What is our current predicament with British national identity?
How does Hatsue remember Kabuo in the land predicament?