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plain·tive

(plān′tĭv)

adj.

Expressing sorrow; mournful or melancholy.

[Middle English plaintif, from Old French, aggrieved, lamenting, from plaint, complaint; see plaint.]

plain′tive·ly adv.

plain′tive·ness n.

plaintive

(ˈpleɪntɪv)

adj

expressing melancholy; mournful

[C14: from Old French plaintif grieving, from plainte plaint]

ˈplaintively adv

ˈplaintiveness n

plain•tive

(ˈpleɪn tɪv)

adj.

expressing sorrow or melancholy; mournful: a plaintive melody.

[1350–1400; Middle English plaintif < Middle French; see plaint, -ive]

plain′tive•ly, adv.

plain′tive•ness, n.

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Adj.

plaintive - expressing sorrow

mournful

sorrowful - experiencing or marked by or expressing sorrow especially that associated with irreparable loss; "sorrowful widows"; "a sorrowful tale of death and despair"; "sorrowful news"; "even in laughter the heart is sorrowful"- Proverbs 14:13

plaintive

adjective sorrowful, sad, pathetic, melancholy, grievous, pitiful, woeful, wistful, mournful, heart-rending, rueful, grief-stricken, disconsolate, doleful, woebegone, piteous Her voice was small and plaintive.

plaintive

adjective

Full of or expressive of sorrow:

doleful, dolorous, lugubrious, mournful, rueful, sad, sorrowful, woebegone, woeful.

Translations

نائِح، شَجي، حَزين

žalostný

sørgmodig

wehleidig

plaintif

panaszos

angurvær

lamentoso querulo

graudumasgraudžiai

žēlabains

vemodig

жалобный

acıklıkederli

悲哀的

plaintive

[ˈpleɪntɪv] ADJ → lastimero, quejumbroso

plaintive

[ˈpleɪntɪv] adj → plaintif/ive

plaintive

adj → klagend; voice etc also → wehleidig (pej); song etc also → schwermütig, elegisch (geh); look etc → leidend; the letter ended on a plaintive note → der Brief schloss mit einer Klage

plaintive

[ˈpleɪntɪv] adj (voice, song) → lamentoso/a; (look) → struggente
plaintive cry → lamento

plaintive

(ˈpleintiv) adjective

sounding sad or sorrowful. a plaintive cry.

ˈplaintively adverb

ˈplaintiveness noun

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A strain of plaintive music, played on stringed instruments, and flutes, recalled my attention to the hidden shrine.

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The rush of expectant men out of the forecastle, the snatching of hand-spikes, the tramp of feet, the clink of the pawls, make a stirring accompaniment to a plaintive up-anchor song with a roaring chorus; and this burst of noisy activity from a whole ship's crew seems like a voiceful awakening of the ship herself, till then, in the picturesque phrase of Dutch seamen, "lying asleep upon her iron.

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I remember the worried, plaintive look that came into his eyes as he examined the ice.

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While his lips were yet in the act of parting, a low but fearful sound arose from the forest, and was immediately succeeded by a high, shrill yell, that was drawn out, until it equaled the longest and most plaintive howl of the wolf.

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A pitiful and plaintive look, with which she had begun to regard him when she was still extremely young, was perhaps a part of this discovery.

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See the plaintive often and considered as his air was feariocious and not to be allowed to go about some children being timid (and if doubted hoping Mrs.

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Five years dragged by, and still, every night at midnight, the plaintive tones floated out over the silent land, while the distant boatmen and peasants thrust their fingers into their ears and shuddered out a prayer.

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Here in thy loneliness the eglantine Weaves her sweet tapestries above thy head, While blow across thy bed, Moist with the dew of heaven, the breezes chill: Fire-fly, will-o'-the-wisp, and wandering star Glow in thy gloom, and naught is heard but the far Chanting of woodman and shepherd from the hill, Naught but the startled bird is seen Soaring away in the moonland sheen, Or the hulk of the scampering beast that fears Their plaintive lays as, to and fro, The pallid singers go.

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for taps is the soldier's nightly release from duty, and farewell: plaintive, sweet, pathetic, for the morning is never sure, for him; always it is possible that he is hearing it for the last time.

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There was something more plaintive than these words, and that was the accent in which they were uttered.

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Constantly they gave tongue to a plaintive note of calling.

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Once, just as her eyes had opened, apparently in the last stage of drowsiness, the roaring winds brought with them a long and plaintive howl, that seemed too wild for a dog, and yet resembled the cries of that faithful animal, when night awakens his vigilance, and gives sweetness and solemnity to its charms.