plightful

adjective

1. Full of risk or danger; risky; dangerous; perilous.

   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.

2. Full of plight; plighted; pledged; devoted.

   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.

Where it comes from

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

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry plightful (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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