Deploring
Plaintive
Plaintive adjective - Expressing or suggesting mourning.
Usage example: the puppy's plaintive expression after we put the toy away was rather amusing
Deploring and plaintive are semantically related. You can use "Deploring" instead an adjective "Plaintive".
Nearby Words: plaint, plaintively
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- melancholy and deploring
- melancholy and plaintive
- wailing and deploring
- wailing and plaintive
- lamenting and deploring
- lamenting and plaintive
- grieving and deploring
- grieving and plaintive
- crying and deploring
- crying and plaintive
- querulous and deploring
- querulous and plaintive
- cantankerous and deploring
- cantankerous and plaintive
Cite this Source
Plaintive and Deploring. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 13, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/deploring/plaintive
Deploring & Plaintive. N.p., 2016. Web. 13 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/deploring/plaintive>.
Plaintive or Deploring. 2016. Accessed August 13, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/deploring/plaintive.
Google Ngram Viewer shows how "deploring" and "plaintive" have occurred on timeline