plaintive Definition

mournful, sorrowful, sad, plangent, melancholy, melancholic, wistful, elegiac, doleful, breathy, poignant, melodious, mellifluous, soulful, tuneful, pensive, falsetto, lugubrious, heartfelt, melodic, heartrending, sonorous, raspy, rueful, songful, guttural, piteous, evocative, lachrymose, languid, dissonant, maudlin, quavery, bluesy, wailful, threnetic, dulcet, whispery, haunting, incantatory, twangy, dirgelike, songlike, epicedian, throaty, epicedial, tremulous, winsome, ruminative, toneless, staccato, poetic, dreamy, declamatory, resonant, jaunty, lyrical, ethereal, lovelorn, tinkly, syncopated, flutelike, jazzy, rhapsodic, melismatic, jangly, croaky, anguished, ejulation, polytonal, pianissimo, fluttery, plainsong, unmelodic, beguiling, cadenced, wordless, reedy, stentorian, countrified, folky, onomatopoeic, limpid, clangorous, singable, melodramatic, propulsive, mellow, antiphonal, chorded, strophic, languorous, exhortatory, eloquent, melancholious, hummable, hypnotic, pointillistic, sardonic, growly,