About The Word Plaintive

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Plaintive

Plaintive Meaning & Definition
Plaintive Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Plaintive?

[adj] expressing sorrow

Synonyms | Synonyms for Plaintive: mournful | sorrowful

Related Terms | Find terms related to Plaintive: aggrieved | anguished | careworn | complaining | doleful | dolorous | dumb with grief | faultfinding | fretful | griefful | grief-stricken | grieved | grievous | howling | in grief | Jeremianic | lamentable | lamenting | lamentive | lugubrious | moanful | mournful | peevish | petulant | piteous | pitiful | plangent | plunged in grief | puling | querulous | rueful | sad | saddening | sorrowed | sorrowful | sorrowing | tearful | ululant | wailful | wailing | whimpering | whining | whiny | woeful

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Plaintive In Webster's Dictionary

\Plain"tive\, a. [F. plaintif. See {Plaintiff}, n.] 1. Repining; complaining; lamenting. --Dryden. 2. Expressive of sorrow or melancholy; mournful; sad. ``The most plaintive ditty.'' --Landor. -- {Plain"tive*ly}, adv. -- {Plain"tive*ness}, n.

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