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plaintive


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Plaintive  \Plain"tive\,  a.  [F.  plaintif.  See  {Plaintiff},  n.] 
  1.  Repining;  complaining;  lamenting.  --Dryden. 
 
  2.  Expressive  of  sorrow  or  melancholy;  mournful;  sad.  ``The 
  most  plaintive  ditty.''  --Landor.  --  {Plain"tive*ly},  adv 
  --  {Plain"tive*ness},  n. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  plaintive 
  adj  :  expressing  sorrow  [syn:  {mournful}] 




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