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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

[F.

plaintif

. See

Noun.

]

Repining; complaining; lamenting.

Dryden.

Expressive of sorrow or melancholy; mournful; sad.

“The most plaintive ditty.”

Landor.

–

Plain′tive-ly

adv.

–

Plain′tive-ness

Noun.

Adj.

Lamenting; complaining; expressive of sorrow; as a plaintive sound or song.

Complaining; expressing sorrow or grief; repining.

To sooth the sorrows of her plaintive son.