plaintive

Meanings

Adjective Satellite

• expressing sorrow

Adj

• Sounding sorrowful, mournful or melancholic.

Synonyms

atrabiliary, atrabilious, bleak, blitheless, blue, bummed out, chapfallen, cheerless, chopfallen, comfortless, crestfallen, cut up, damp, dark, dejected, depressed, depressing, desolate, despondent, dire, disconsolate, disgruntled, disheartened, dismal, doleful, dolesome, down, down in the dumps, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, downsome, drear, drearisome, dreary, dreich, dull, elegiac, elegious, forlorn, gayless, gloomsome, gloomy, glum, gray, grief-stricken, grieving, grim, heartsick, heartsore, heavy-hearted, inconsolable, infelicitous, jawfallen, joyless, lachrymose, lack-laughter, lamentful, low, low-spirited, lugubrious, lumpish, melancholic, melancholy, mirthless, miserable, moody, mopey, morose, mournful, no joke, passionate, plaintive, querulous, sad, saddened, saturnine, shattered, solemn, somber, sombre, sorrow-ridden, sorrowful, sorrowsome, spiritless, sullen, sunless, threnetic, threnetical, triste, tristful, uncheerful, uncheery, unconsolable, unhappy, unlively, unmerry, wintry, wistful, woe, woebegone, woeful, wretched

Related Words

plaint, plaintiff