plaintive
11plaintive — adjective a plaintive sound is high, like someone crying, and sounds sad: the plaintive cry of the seagull plaintively adverb …
12plaintive — UK [ˈpleɪntɪv] / US adjective a plaintive sound is high and sad a plaintive melody/cry Derived word: plaintively adverb …
13plaintive — adjective Etymology: Middle English plaintif grieving, from Anglo French pleintif, plaintif, from plaint Date: 1579 expressive of suffering or woe ; melancholy < a plaintive sigh > • plaintively adverb • plaintiveness noun …
14plaintive — plaintively, adv. plaintiveness, n. /playn tiv/, adj. expressing sorrow or melancholy; mournful: a plaintive melody. [1350 1400; PLAINT + IVE; r. ME plaintif < MF] Syn. wistful, sorrowful, sad. Ant. happy, joyful. * * * …
15plaintive — ● plaintif, plaintive adjectif (de plainte) Qui traduit une douleur, une peine : Ton plaintif. Littéraire. Qui produit des sons semblables à des gémissements : Le bruit plaintif du vent dans les branches …
16plaintive — adj. Plaintive is used with these nouns: ↑cry, ↑melody, ↑voice, ↑wail …
17plaintive — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. mournful, wistful, sad, melancholy, sorrowful. See lamentation. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. melancholy, pitiful, mournful; see sad 2 . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) (VOCABULARY WORD) a. [PLANE tiv] …
18plaintive — adjective a plaintive cry Syn: mournful, sad, wistful, doleful, pathetic, pitiful, piteous, melancholy, sorrowful, unhappy, wretched, woeful, forlorn, woebegone; literary dolorous …
19plaintive — [ˈpleɪntɪv] adj a plaintive sound is high and sad plaintively adv …
20plaintive — plain•tive [[t]ˈpleɪn tɪv[/t]] adj. expressing sorrow or melancholy; mournful: a plaintive melody[/ex] • Etymology: 1350–1400; ME plaintif < MF; see plaint, ive plain′tive•ly, adv. plain′tive•ness, n …
