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Plaintive

//ˈpleɪntɪv//

Synonyms for "plaintive" (48 found)

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Informal (3)

Adj, intj, name, noun, verb, slang(1 words)

Adj, name, noun, verb, slang(1 words)

Adj, adv, slang(1 words)

General use (45)

Adj, noun(2 words)

melancholy faultfinding

Adj, adv(1 words)

Adjective(25 words)

grievous woeful petulant lamentable sorrowful mournful pathetic querulous fretful rueful piteous plangent dolorous doleful tearful lugubrious whiny careworn grief-stricken ululant

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wailful griefful moanful lamentive Jeremianic

Adjective(1 words)

Noun, verb(7 words)

complaining whining wailing whimpering sorrowing puling lamenting

Adj, verb(4 words)

anguished grieved aggrieved sorrowed

Adj, noun, verb(1 words)

grief stricken dumb with grief in grief plunged in grief

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