'Plaintive' definitions:
Definition of 'Plaintive'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster] -- {Plain"tive*ly}, adv. -- {Plain"tive*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'plaintive'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aggrieved,
- anguished,
- careworn,
- complaining,
- doleful,
- dolorous,
- dumb with grief,
- faultfinding,
- fretful,
- grief-stricken,
- griefful,
- 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