Another word for plaintive
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Adjective
Full of or expressive of sorrow
- Affected by or full of woe; mournful:
- Causing, involving, or expressing woe:
- Deplorably bad:
- Feeling, showing, or expressing deep sorrow, grief, or wretchedness:
- Of an inferior or deplorable condition:
- Feeling, showing, or expressing sorrow.
- Causing sorrow:
- Showing, expressing, or feeling sorrow or unhappiness:
- Causing sorrow or gloom; depressing:
- Deplorable or inadequate; sorry:
- Causing, feeling, or expressing sorrow or regret:
- Feeling or expressing sorrow or grief; sorrowful.
- Causing or suggesting sadness or melancholy:
- Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
- Marked by or exhibiting sorrow, grief, or pain.
- Filled with or expressing grief; mournful.
- Causing grief:
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Another word for plaintive
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- Feeling or expressing sorrow or grief; sorrowful.
- Causing or suggesting sadness or melancholy:
- Inspiring or deserving pity.
- Arousing contemptuous pity, as through ineptitude or inadequacy.
- Filled with pity or compassion.
- Sadness or depression of the spirits; gloom.
- Pensive reflection or contemplation.
- Black bile.
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