Definitions for: Plaintive

[adj] expressing sorrow

Webster (1913) Definition: 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.

Synonyms: mournful, sorrowful