Plaintive Moderate

Origin: Latin suffix -ive

Plaintive has 2 different meanings across 1 category:

Definitions

Adjective

expressing sorrow

mournful plaintive

Sounding sorrowful, mournful or melancholic.

See Also

plaint plaintively bleating elegy pule mournful plaintiveness unplaintive

Related Terms

plaint plaintively bleating elegy pule mournful plaintiveness unplaintive plaintiff doloroso sorrowful melancholic

Rhyming Words

vive zive give yive jive wive tive rive five bive dive live hive skive blive shive alive snive chive swive

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