Plaintive \Plain"tive\, a. [F. plaintif. See Plaintiff, n.]
1. Repining; complaining; lamenting. --Dryden.
[1913 Webster]
2. Expressive of sorrow or melancholy; mournful; sad. "The
most plaintive ditty." --Landor.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
plaintive
adj : expressing sorrow [syn: mournful]
WordNet (r) 2.0
44 Moby Thesaurus words for "plaintive":
Jeremianic, aggrieved, anguished, careworn, complaining, doleful,
dolorous, dumb with grief, faultfinding, fretful, grief-stricken,
griefful, grieved, grievous, howling, in grief, 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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
mournful
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