Plaintive synonyms
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Causing, feeling, or expressing sorrow or regret:
Causing or tending to cause sadness or gloom:
Demanding or arousing pity:
Arousing or deserving pity
Ld. Berners
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The definition of dolorous is a person who is very sad.
Feeling or expressing sorrow or grief; sorrowful.
Causing sorrow:
Of an inferior or deplorable condition:
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.
melodious (related)
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plangent (related)
shrill (related)
high-pitched (related)
breathy (related)
mellifluous (related)
lilt (related)
sonorous (related)
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wistful (related)
trill (related)
whispery (related)
hymn-like (related)
warble (related)
Showing ill humor; annoyed.
(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
Gloomy, mournful or dismal, especially to an exaggerated degree.
Deplorably bad:
Find another word for plaintive. In this page you can discover 31 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for plaintive, like: fretful, rueful, lamenting, melancholy, piteous, pitiful, sad, doleful, dolorous, mournful and sorrowful.