Synonyms for plaintive
- adjective
All synonyms
Adjective
1. Mournful
mournful, sorrowful, doleful, melancholy, sad, elegiac, piteous, querulous, lugubrious, rueful, tearful, pathetic, grief-stricken, woeful, complaining, grievous, unhappy, miserable, forlorn, somber US, sombre UK, moody, disconsolate
Other
Definitions
- adj. 1
Sounding sorrowful, mournful or melancholic.
a typically plaintive song from Radiohead
Example sentences
- mournful Tom stood at the window with a mournful expression on his face.
- elegiac Tom wrote an elegiac couplet in Latin about Mary.
- doleful My dog died yesterday, so I'm quite doleful.
- piteous He looked piteous, like a drowned mouse.
By length
- 3 letters
- sad1
- 5 letters
- moody2
- 6 letters
- somber2, sombre, woeful2, rueful2
- 7 letters
- unhappy3, tearful2, forlorn2, elegiac, doleful2, piteous
- 8 letters
- pathetic3, grievous2, mournful2, wailsome
- 9 letters
- miserable4, sorrowful3, querulous3
- 10 letters
- melancholy4, lugubrious4
- 11 letters
- complaining3
- 12 letters
- disconsolate
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (moody2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- dolent