Meaning of PLAINTIVE
| Pronunciation: | | 'pleyntiv
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[adj] expressing sorrow |
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PLAINTIVE is a 9 letter word that starts with P. |
| | Synonyms: | | mournful, sorrowful |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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.
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| | Related Terms: | | aggrieved, anguished, careworn, complaining, doleful, dolorous, dumb with grief, faultfinding, fretful, griefful, grief-stricken, 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 |
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