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plain⋅tive

[pleyn-tiv]
–adjective
expressing sorrow or melancholy; mournful: a plaintive melody.

Origin:
1350–1400; plaint + -ive; r. ME plaintif < MF
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plain·tive     (plān'tĭv)  Pronunciation Key 
adj.   Expressing sorrow; mournful or melancholy.

[Middle English plaintif, from Old French, aggrieved, lamenting, from plaint, complaint; see plaint.]
plain'tive·ly adv., plain'tive·ness n.
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plaintive 
1390, "lamenting," from O.Fr. plaintif "complaining," from pleint (see plaint). Sense of "mournful, sad" first recorded 1579.

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plaintive

adjective
expressing sorrow [syn: mournful

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Plaintive

Plain"tive\, a. [F. plaintif. See Plaintiff, n.]

1. Repining; complaining; lamenting. --Dryden.

2. Expressive of sorrow or melancholy; mournful; sad. "The most plaintive ditty." --Landor. -- Plain"tive*ly, adv. -- Plain"tive*ness, n.

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