Complaintive

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Tending to complain, characterized by complaining.

    "The winding streams and hanging hills repeat / Loud groans from ev'ry herd, from ev'ry fold / Complaintive murmurs; heaps on heaps they fall, / There where they fall they lie, corrupt and rot."

Adjective
  1. 1
    expressing pain or dissatisfaction of resentment wordnet

Synonyms

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complainingcomplaining

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"The winding streams and hanging hills repeat / Loud groans from ev'ry herd, from ev'ry fold / Complaintive murmurs; heaps on heaps they fall, / There where they fall they lie, corrupt and rot."

Etymology

From complaint + -ive.

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