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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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plaintively

adverb
in a plaintive manner; "the last note of the song rang out plaintively" 

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