The plaintive melody broke her heart.
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Plaintive
/ˈpleɪntɪv/
Synonyms for "plaintive" (57 found)
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Closest matches (12)
aggrievedanguishedcareworncomplainingdolefuldolorousdumb with grieffaultfindingfretfulgrief stricken
Strong matches (17)
Adjective(3 words)
Related words (28)
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5 entriesacoustic descriptordescriptive adjectiveemotive adjectiveliterary descriptorsound descriptor
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9 entriesdolorouselegiac passagelamenting dialoguelugubriousmelancholicminor-key timbresighing timbresorrowful versethin timbre
Collocations
6 entriesplaintive cryplaintive melodyplaintive refrainplaintive sighplaintive toneplaintive voice
Inflections
2 entriesmore plaintivemost plaintive
Derivations
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1 entriesSample sentences
13 total sentences available.
Tom has such a plaintive quality to his singing voice that even his happy songs sound sad.
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Nine hundred years shall you wander over the lakes and streams of Erin. This only I will grant unto you: that you retain your own speech, and there shall be no music in the world equal to yours, the plaintive music you shall sing.
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Then his plaintive tone / no more could Venus bear, but interrupts her son: / "Stranger", she answered, "whosoe'er thou be; / not unbeloved of heavenly powers, I ween, / thou breath'st the vital air, whom Fate's decree / permits a Tyrian city to have seen."
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