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[ pleyn-tiv ] / ˈpleɪn tɪv / SEE SYNONYMS FOR plaintive ON THESAURUS.COM
adjectiveexpressing sorrow or melancholy; mournful: a plaintive melody. Origin of plaintive1350–1400; plaint + -ive; replacing Middle English plaintif<Middle French SYNONYMS FOR plaintivewistful, sorrowful, sad. SEE SYNONYMS FOR plaintive ON THESAURUS.COM ANTONYMS FOR plaintivehappy, joyful. SEE ANTONYMS FOR plaintive ON THESAURUS.COM OTHER WORDS FROM plaintiveplain·tive·ly, adverbplain·tive·ness, nounWORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH plaintiveplaintiff, plaintive Words nearby plaintiveplainstones, plain suit, plaint, plaintext, plaintiff, plaintive, plain tripe, plain turkey, plain-vanilla, Plainview, Plainville Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for plaintiveHamer declared in her plaintive, outspoken way: “I am sick and tired of being sick and tired!” Remembering Civil Rights Heroine Fannie Lou Hamer: 'I'm Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired'|Lottie L. Joiner|September 2, 2014|DAILY BEAST Hence the plaintive email from inside the bunker at Walmart in February. Walmart’s Anti-Union Wage Plans Earn a Cold Shoulder From Big Cities|Daniel Gross|July 11, 2013|DAILY BEAST What a strange, plaintive philosophy for someone whose profession involved sitting alone most of the day: love the world. Learning From Carlos Fuentes, One Year On|Ethan Shaskan Bumas|May 15, 2013|DAILY BEAST He also has a precocious attraction to his favorite nurse, Ingrid, who sings to him every night in a “plaintive voice.” Juvenilia: A Bibliography|Eric Puchner|February 15, 2010|DAILY BEAST
Kage's friend, a strawberry blond who landed a small part, sent me a plaintive email from the set last week. Tarantino's Nazis|Caroline Winter|December 17, 2008|DAILY BEAST Had he been an Italian bird, Ovid would have had a plaintive tale to tell about him. My Garden Acquaintance|James Russell Lowell He saw a great chance slipping from him, and his voice was plaintive. The Castle Inn|Stanley John Weyman She was not pretty and looked weak and poor, but she had a plaintive and a good face, though it was still a little wild. Bleak House|Charles Dickens But the plaintive tone of such a man asking such a question was significant and interesting and—sad. The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume II|Burton J. Hendrick The song passed gradually into an elegy, plaintive and full of pain. Quo Vadis|Henryk Sienkiewicz
British Dictionary definitions for plaintive
adjectiveexpressing melancholy; mournful Derived forms of plaintiveplaintively, adverbplaintiveness, nounWord Origin for plaintiveC14: from Old French plaintif grieving, from plainte plaint Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to plaintivemelancholy, grief-stricken, sad, wistful, heartrending, mournful, sorrowful, cantankerous, crabby, cranky, disconsolate, doleful, grievous, grumpy, lamenting, lugubrious, out of sorts, pathetic, piteous, pitiful |