Plaintive

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
plaintive
    adj 1: expressing sorrow [syn: {mournful}, {plaintive}]
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Plaintive \Plain"tive\, a. [F. plaintif. See {Plaintiff}, n.]
   1. Repining; complaining; lamenting. --Dryden.
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   2. Expressive of sorrow or melancholy; mournful; sad. "The
      most plaintive ditty." --Landor.
      [1913 Webster] -- {Plain"tive*ly}, adv. --
      {Plain"tive*ness}, n.
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
44 Moby Thesaurus words for "plaintive":
      Jeremianic, aggrieved, anguished, careworn, complaining, doleful,
      dolorous, dumb with grief, faultfinding, fretful, grief-stricken,
      griefful, grieved, grievous, howling, in grief, 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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