plaintive

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Sounding sorrowful, mournful or melancholic.
    — a typically plaintive song from Radiohead

词形变化

more plaintive comparative most plaintive superlative

词源

From Middle English pleintif, plentyff, from Old French pleintif (“aggrieved, lamenting”) (whence modern French plaintif), from plainte (“lament, complaint”); see plaint. Doublet of plaintiff.
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