adj
Meaning 1
Sounding sorrowful, mournful or melancholic.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- a typically plaintive song from Radiohead
- I can see by your plaintive smile something is wrong, so spill it.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: miserable, unhappy, cheerless, comfortless, bleak, dark, morose, depressing, desolate, dire, disconsolate, dismal, doleful, dolesome, drear, drearisome, dreary, dreich, forlorn, gayless, gray, gloomsome, gloomy, grim, joyless, lack-laughter, lugubrious, melancholy, mirthless, no joke, saturnine, solemn, somber, sombre, spiritless, sullen, sunless, uncheerful, uncheery, unmerry, wintry, woeful, atrabiliary, atrabilious, blitheless, dispirited, blue, bummed out, chapfallen, chopfallen, crestfallen, cut up, damp, dejected, depressed, despondent, disgruntled, disheartened, down, down in the dumps, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, downsome, dull, elegiac, elegious, glum, grief-stricken, grieving, heavy-hearted, heartsore, heartsick, inconsolable, infelicitous, jawfallen, lachrymose, lamentful, low, low-spirited, lumpish, melancholic, moody, mopey, mournful, passionate, plaintive, Plutonian, Plutonic, querulous, ruthful, sad, saddened, shattered, sorrowful, sorrow-ridden, sorrowsome, threnetic, threnetical, triste, tristful, unconsolable, unlively, wistful, woe, woebegone, wretched
Antonyms: none provided