plaintively
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Related to plaintively: menacingly, ominously
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.
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Adv. | 1. | plaintively - in a plaintive manner; "the last note of the song rang out plaintively" |
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Translations
بِشَجى، بِحُزْن، بِأسى
naříkavě
panaszosan
á angurværan hátt
hüzünlekederle
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
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plaintively
adv say, ask → klagend
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plaintive
(ˈpleintiv) adjective sounding sad or sorrowful. a plaintive cry.
ˈplaintively adverbˈplaintiveness noun
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