Plaintive

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.