• Expressive of sorrow or melancholy; mournful; sad.


    Plaintive meaning & definition 1 of Plaintive.


  • used to describe something that sounds slightly sad:

    Plaintive meaning & definition 2 of Plaintive.


  • Sounding sad and mournful.

    Plaintive meaning & definition 3 of Plaintive.

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