plaintive Antonyms
Strongest:
- cheerful
- joyful
- laughing
- triumphant
- cheerful
- bright
- delighted
- smiling
- triumphant
- smiling
- delighted
- happy
- happy
- laughing
- cheery
- cheery
- joyful
- bright
Strong:
- glorying
- exulting
- exulting
- encouraging
- buoyant
- hopeful
- jolly
- blithe
- encouraging
- blissful
- rhapsodic
- optimistic
- jolly
- merry
- mirthful
- hopeful
- lighthearted
- joyous
- lighthearted
- buoyant
- optimistic
- glorying
- blithe
- mirthful
- merry
- cheering
- rejoicing
- rhapsodic
- blissful
- cheering
- rejoicing
- joyous
Weak:
Strongest:
Strong:
- crying
- melancholy
- lugubrious
- funereal
- anguished
- unhappy
- regretful
- doleful
- bleak
- woeful
- depressed
- grieving
- plangent
- agonized
- tearful
- sorry
- sad
- rueful
- dolorous
- lamentable
- aching
- sorrowful
- somber
Weak:
- darkening
- gloomy
- black
- saturnine
- dejected
- joyless
- forlorn
- dirgelike
- careworn
- morbid
- dark
- triste
- despondent
- glum
- low
- inconsolable
- keening
- pathetic
- elegiac
- howling
- cheerless
- wretched
- miserable
- downcast
- moaning
- dreary
- woebegone
- dispirited
- elegiacal
- grey
- dismal
- bleeding
- pessimistic
- desolate
- groaning
- sombre
- bewailing
- bawling
- morose
- heartsick
- heartsore
- brokenhearted
- deploring
- suffering
- crestfallen
- bemoaning
- piteous
- disconsolate
- sullen
- moody
- gray
- low-spirited
- dolesome
- downhearted
Meaning of plaintive
plaintive (s)
expressing sorrow
plaintive (n.)
Repining; complaining; lamenting.
Expressive of sorrow or melancholy; mournful; sad.
FAQs About the word plaintive
expressing sorrowRepining; complaining; lamenting., Expressive of sorrow or melancholy; mournful; sad.
wailing, bitter, funeral, weeping,mournful, heartbroken, crying, melancholy, lugubrious, funereal
cheerful, joyful, laughing,triumphant, cheerful, bright, delighted, smiling, triumphant, smiling
The plaintive melody of the violin evoked a profound sense of longing in her soul.
The abandoned child's plaintive cries pierced the stillness of the night.
The wind howled a plaintive lament through the barren branches of the trees.
The plaintive gaze in the dog's eyes conveyed its unspoken sorrow.
