Plaintive
[pleyn-tiv] /ˈpleɪn tɪv/
adjective
1.
expressing sorrow or melancholy; mournful:
a plaintive melody.
/ˈpleɪntɪv/
adjective
1.
expressing melancholy; mournful
adj.
late 14c., “lamenting,” from Old French plaintif “complaining; wretched, miserable,” from plainte (see plaint). Sense of “mournful, sad” first recorded 1570s. Related: Plaintively; plaintiveness.
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