Plaintive synonyms and antonyms

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sad
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fretful
Unable to relax; fidgety or restless
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mournful
Feeling or expressing sorrow or grief; sorrowful.
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rueful
Causing, feeling, or expressing sorrow or regret:
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melancholy
Causing or tending to cause sadness or gloom:
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pitiful
Arousing or deserving pity
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lamenting
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doleful
Filled with grief, mournful, bringing feelings of sadness.
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piteous
Demanding or arousing pity:
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dolorous
The definition of dolorous is a person who is very sad.
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sorrowful
Causing sorrow:
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woebegone
Of an inferior or deplorable condition:
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happy (related)
Experiencing the effect of favourable fortune; having the feeling arising from the consciousness of well-being or of enjoyment; enjoying good of any kind, as peace, tranquillity, comfort; contented; joyous.
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melodious (related)
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plangent (related)
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shrill (related)
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high-pitched (related)
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breathy (related)
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mellifluous (related)
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lilt (related)
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sonorous (related)
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wistful (related)
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trill (related)
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whispery (related)
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hymn-like (related)
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warble (related)
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cross
Showing ill humor; annoyed.
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elegiac
(Gr. & Latin Prosody) Of or composed in dactylic-hexameter couplets, the second line (sometimes called a pentameter) having only an accented syllable in the third and sixth feet: the form was used for elegies and various other lyric poems
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cheerful (antonym)
Willing; ready
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lugubrious
Gloomy, mournful or dismal, especially to an exaggerated degree.
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woeful
Deplorably bad:
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Plaintive Sentence Examples

  • From the tents came now loud angry cries and now plaintive groans.

  • The sad news of their grandmother's death left the room full of plaintive cries.

  • Her plaintive words showed the sorrow and remore that Rachel felt.

  • And the bit with the carol singers is very plaintive.

  • The plaintive moan of reproach was drowned by the threatening and angry roar of the crowd.

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