Plaintive

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Expressing sorrow; mournful or melancholy.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Sorrowful, mournful or melancholic.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Repining; complaining; lamenting.
  • adj. Expressive of sorrow or melancholy; mournful; sad.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • 1. Lamenting; complaining; giving utterance to sorrow or grief; repining.
  • Expressive of sorrow or melancholy; mournful; sad: said of things: as, a plaintive sound; a plaintive air; a plaintive song.
  • Synonyms Plaintive, Querulous, woful, rueful. Plaintive and querulous agree in expressing weakness. He who is querulous is ready to find fault over trivial matters, and in a weak, captious, tired way; there is a tone recognized as querlous. Plaintive is rarely said of persons; a plaintive tone or utterance conveys a subdued regret or lamentation : as, the plaintive note of the mourning dove. See petulant.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. expressing sorrow
  • Equivalent
    sorrowful   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    repining    complaining    lamenting    mournful    sad   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    mournful    high-pitched    doleful    piteous    melodious    wordless    wistful    anguished    tremulous    long-drawn