- (n.) Expressive of sorrow or melancholy; mournful; sad.
- (n.) Repining; complaining; lamenting.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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| MLA | Webster's. "plaintive" 27 May 2011. Web. 24 September 2026. <http://smartdefine.org/plaintive/definitions/2046072> |