Plaintive
Plaintive adjective - Expressing or suggesting mourning.
Usage example: the puppy's plaintive expression after we put the toy away was rather amusing
Yammering and plaintive are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Yammering" instead an adjective "Plaintive".
Nearby Words: plaint, plaintively
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- woeful and plaintive
- woeful and yammering
- wailing and plaintive
- wailing and yammering
- sorry and plaintive
- sorry and yammering
- lamentable and plaintive
- lamentable and yammering
- sorrowful and plaintive
- sorrowful and yammering
- dolorous and plaintive
- dolorous and yammering
- lugubrious and plaintive
- lugubrious and yammering
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Yammering and Plaintive. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 28, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/plaintive/yammering
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Yammering or Plaintive. 2016. Accessed July 28, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/plaintive/yammering.
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