Category:Plaintive

Plain"tive, a. Etym: [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.