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plaintive Definition


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plaintive
adj
    1. Mournful-sounding; sad; wistful.
      Thesaurus: sad, melancholy, mournful, wistful, disconsolate, pitiful, woebegone.
Derivative: plaintively
adverb
    Derivative: plaintiveness
    noun
      Etymology: 16c in this sense; 14c meaning ‘complaining': from French plaintif.



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