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Learn to pronounce plain·tive

/ˈplān(t)iv/
adjective
sounding sad and mournful.
"a plaintive cry"
synonyms: mournful, sad, wistful, doleful, pathetic, pitiful, piteous, melancholy, melancholic, sorrowful, unhappy, wretched, woeful, grief-stricken, broken-hearted, heartbroken, desolate, heart-rending, forlorn, woebegone, disconsolate, plangent, heartsick, dolorous