Synonyms of plaintive

plaintive

adjective

as in mournful

expressing or suggesting mourning

the puppy's plaintive expression after we put the toy away was rather amusing

Synonyms & Similar Words

• mournful
• weeping
• funeral
• heartbroken
• wailing
• bitter
• anguished
• grieving
• melancholy
• doleful
• sorrowful
• sad
• plangent
• aching
• tearful
• dolorous
• agonized
• lugubrious
• rueful
• lamentable
• sorry
• regretful
• somber
• unhappy
• crying
• woeful
• funereal
• depressed
• bleak
• bewailing
• morbid
• elegiac
• deploring
• dark
• bemoaning
• keening
• pathetic
• dolesome
• moody
• disconsolate
• despondent
• downcast
• forlorn
• dejected
• heartsick
• woebegone
• inconsolable
• dispirited
• darkening
• miserable
• careworn
• piteous
• groaning
• moaning
• gloomy
• desolate
• crestfallen
• sombre
• glum
• howling
• morose
• brokenhearted
• bleeding
• sullen
• gray
• elegiacal
• black
• grey
• heartsore
• cheerless
• dirgelike
• downhearted
• suffering
• pessimistic
• low
• saturnine
• wretched
• bawling
• joyless
• triste
• low-spirited
• dismal
• dreary
• yammering
• comfortless

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• triumphant
• joyful
• happy
• cheerful
• cheery
• bright
• smiling
• delighted
• laughing
• joyous
• exulting
• blithe
• buoyant
• rejoicing
• merry
• jolly
• lighthearted
• mirthful
• hopeful
• blissful
• optimistic
• encouraging
• glorying
• cheering
• rhapsodic
• rapturous
• ecstatic
• euphoric
• jocund
• heady
• giddy
• blithesome
• rhapsodical
• elated
• exhilarated

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• triumphant
• joyful
• happy
• cheerful
• cheery
• bright
• smiling
• delighted
• laughing
• joyous
• exulting
• blithe
• buoyant
• rejoicing
• merry
• jolly
• lighthearted
• mirthful
• hopeful
• blissful
• optimistic
• encouraging
• glorying
• cheering
• rhapsodic
• rapturous
• ecstatic
• euphoric
• jocund
• heady
• giddy
• blithesome
• rhapsodical
• elated
• exhilarated

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