- plaintive as an adjective:
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plaintive
adjective
1 plaintive
Expressing sorrow.
synonym: mournful.
Roget 839: lamenting etc. v.; in mourning, in sackcloth and ashes; sorrowing, sorrowful etc. (unhappy) 828; mournful, tearful; lachrymose; plaintive, ... show more
Polish: boleściwy, żałosny, bolesny
Moby thesaurus: Jeremianic, aggrieved, anguished, careworn, complaining, doleful, dolorous, dumb with grief, faultfinding, fretful, grief-stricken, griefful, grieved, grievous, howling, in grief, lamentable, lamenting, lamentive, lugubrious ... show more.
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