Plaintive

created by Webster 1913

(definition) by Webster 1913 (print) I like it! Wed Dec 22 1999 at 2:02:34

Plain"tive (?), a. [F. plaintif. See Plaintiff, n.]

Repining; complaining; lamenting.

Dryden.

Expressive of sorrow or melancholy; mournful; sad.

"The most plaintive ditty."

Landor.

-- Plain"tive*ly, adv. -- Plain"tive*ness, n.

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