plaintive

[PlainĀ·tive]

Plaintive is an adjective for describing someone or something with a pleading, sorrowful, desperate tone. If you have ever heard the plaintive howl of a wolf, then you know what we are getting at here.

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Repining; complaining; lamenting.

Adjective S.
expressing sorrow


n.
Repining; complaining; lamenting.

n.
Expressive of sorrow or melancholy; mournful; sad.


Plaintive

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.

Repining; complaining; lamenting.

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