plaintive

Adjective Satellite

• expressing sorrow

Adj

• Sounding sorrowful, mournful or melancholic.

Examples

• a typically plaintive song from Radiohead
• I can see by your plaintive smile something is wrong, so spill it.

Synonyms

mournful, 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, 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