Plaintive is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PLAINTIVE in dictionary:

NOUN:
• Repining; complaining; lamenting.
• Expressive of sorrow or melancholy; mournful; sad.
ADJECTIVE:
• mournful, querulous
• sounding sad and mournful
• sad, mournful
• expressing sorrow
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• expressive of suffering or wo; melancholy

Words related to PLAINTIVE

plaintively19 plaintiveness18

Words that contain PLAINTIVE

plaintively19 plaintiveness18 plaintivenesses20

How to use PLAINTIVE in a sentence

• The flute lifted its plaintive voice, feeling for high C.
• Amidst the nightmare that accompanied the fever, I heard a moan similar to the continuous plaintive cry of a child in suffering.
• He had a blond curly head, a long face, pale, mild eyes, a plaintive voice, and a general expression of innocent timidity strongly suggestive of animated mutton.
• He had been steadily of late refusing to remember, but the sweet voice and the plaintive melody had caught him unawares.
• There is not a plaintive strain in his whole performance.
• Moodily the elder pursued his journey, and as he rode, far off in the night there rose and quivered a plaintive cry.
• It has a plaintive and melancholy expression, which, I rejoice to say, I do not associate with him.
• This tragedy would not have been perfect without the plaintive minor strain of Love in Death.
• Here one set up a plaintive whining and the other an angry growling, their outcries increasing as he came nearer.
• What was happening? The musical box somewhere on the table began playing a rather trivial, rather plaintive air that was strange to him.
• They are set to a little plaintive air, very happily characteristic of the words.
• There is a kind of mountain owl in certain parts of northern India which possesses a curiously high, plaintive note.
• At first I thought that we were near natives from hearing a plaintive cry like that of a child, but Kaiber assured me that it was the cry of the young of the wild turkey.
• Up and down the river banks she goes, uttering a peculiar plaintive cry.
• The plaintive rhythm died away and the clapping which succeeded it was quieter, less boisterous, than hitherto.
• And it was like her, too, not to make any covert appeal to his sympathy, not to seek to entrap his judgment by caressing words and plaintive allusions.
• There is every note in this babel of voices, mad notes, plaintive notes, angry notes, whimpering notes.
• They moved with grace, keeping time to a plaintive song, now raised by the whole choir, now fallen to a single voice.
• Presently there came floating over the water, over the key, the quaint, plaintive sound of untrained voices enthusiastically raised in song.
• A sudden cry on the shore sounded plaintive in the distance, and ceased abruptly, as if stifled in the downpour of sunshine.
• That voice of God spoke out, tender, gentle, plaintive, pleading.
• The music was of a plaintive character, and was lacking in the melody of a Broadwood or a Steinway.
• Their hymns were weird and plaintive, yet full of a heroic hope that God had not forgotten.
• The West had lost the song plaintive and adopted the song jubilant.
• He blew again that plaintive, piercing air, sounding it out over the ridges and distant thickets.
• Plaintive and eerie the moor-birds protested against this invasion of their haunts.

SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. We do not cooperate with the owners of this trademark. All trademark rights are owned by their owners and are not relevant to the web site "scrabble-word.com". This site is intended for entertainment and training. We try to make a useful tool for all fans of SCRABBLE. "Scrabble Word" is the best method to improve your skills in the game.