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Plaintive
Plaintive
plain·tive
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(adjective)
mournful, melancholy, or generally sad in sound, expressing woe or suffering;
e.g. They heard his plaintive request and took pity on him.
Similar Words
Agonized
Anguished
Bitter
Careworn
Doleful
Dolorous
Funeral
Heartbroken
Howling
Lamentable
Lugubrious
Mournful
Plangent
Regretful
Rueful
Sorrowful
Sorry
Suicidal
Weeping
Woeful
Opposite Words
Beatific
Blissful
Blithe
Buoyant
Cheerful
Cheery
Delighted
Ecstatic
Elated
Encouraging
Euphoric
Exhilarated
Facetious
Festive
Gay
Giddy
Glad
Gleeful
Happy
Heady
Hopeful
Humorous
Jocose
Jocular
Jocund
Jolly
Jovial
Joyful
Joyous
Lighthearted
Merry
Optimistic
Overjoyed
Rejoicing
Satisfied
Sunny
Thankful
Triumphant
Witty
Related Words
Apologetic
Black
Bleak
Bleeding
Blue
Brokenhearted
Careworn
Cheerless
Chill
Cimmerian
Cloudy
Cold
Contrite
Crestfallen
Crying
Dark
Dejected
Depressed
Depressing
Depressive
Desolate
Despondent
Dire
Disconsolate
Dismal
Doleful
Down
Downcast
Downhearted
Dreary
Elegiac
Forlorn
Funereal
Gloomy
Glum
Godforsaken
Gray
Grey
Hangdog
Heartbroken
Heartsick
Howling
Inconsolable
Lachrymose
Lonely
Lonesome
Low
Low-spirited
Lugubrious
Melancholic
Melancholy
Miserable
Moody
Morbid
Morose
Mournful
Murky
Pathetic
Penitent
Pessimistic
Piteous
Plutonian
Regretful
Remorseful
Repentant
Rueful
Sad
Saturnine
Sepulchral
Solemn
Somber
Sorrowful
Sorry
Suffering
Sullen
Sunless
Tearful
Teary
Tenebrific
Tenebrous
The
Unhappy
Woebegone
Woeful
Wretched
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