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The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos.
Lydia M. Child

Meaning of "plaintive" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD PLAINTIVE

From Old French plaintif grieving, from plainteplaint.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF PLAINTIVE

plaintive  [ˈpleɪntɪv] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PLAINTIVE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Plaintive is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES PLAINTIVE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Plaintiff

A plaintiff, also known as a claimant or complainant, is the term used in some jurisdictions for the party who initiates a lawsuit before a court. By doing so, the plaintiff seeks a legal remedy, and if successful, the court will issue judgment in favor of the plaintiff and make the appropriate court order. In some jurisdictions the commencement of a lawsuit is done by filing a summons, claim form and/or a complaint. These documents are known as pleadings, that set forth the alleged wrongs committed by the defendant or defendants with a demand for relief. In other jurisdictions the action is commenced by service of legal process by delivery of these documents on the defendant by a process server; they are only filed with the court subsequently with an affidavit from the process server that they had been given to the defendant according to the rules of civil procedure. Not all lawsuits are plenary actions, involving a full trial on the merits of the case. There are also simplified procedures, often called proceedings, in which the parties are termed petitioner instead of plaintiff, and respondent instead of defendant.

Definition of plaintive in the English dictionary

The definition of plaintive in the dictionary is expressing melancholy; mournful.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PLAINTIVE


adventive
ədˈvɛntɪv
affrontive
əˈfrʌntɪv
agentive
ˈeɪdʒəntɪv
anal-retentive
ˌeɪnəlrəˈtɛntɪv
appointive
əˈpɔɪntɪv
argumentive
ˈɑːɡjʊməntɪv
attentive
əˈtɛntɪv
disincentive
ˌdɪsɪnˈsɛntɪv
fermentive
fəˈmɛntɪv
inattentive
ˌɪnəˈtɛntɪv
incentive
ɪnˈsɛntɪv
inventive
ɪnˈvɛntɪv
irretentive
ˌɪrɪˈtɛntɪv
pendentive
pɛnˈdɛntɪv
preventive
prɪˈvɛntɪv
retentive
rɪˈtɛntɪv
substantive
ˈsʌbstəntɪv
sustentive
səˈstɛntɪv
unattentive
ˌʌnəˈtentɪv
uninventive
ˌʌnɪnˈventɪv

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PLAINTIVE

plainful
plainish
plainly
plainness
plains
Plains Indian
Plains of Abraham
plainsman
plainsmen
plainsong
plainspokenness
plainstanes
plainstones
plaint
plaintful
plaintiff
plaintively
plaintiveness
plaintless
plainwork

WORDS THAT END LIKE PLAINTIVE

active
alternative
anal retentive
assentive
automotive
circumventive
competitive
cooperative
creative
effective
executive
in the negative
intentive
interactive
native
negative
overattentive
presentive
tax incentive
wage incentive

Synonyms and antonyms of plaintive in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «PLAINTIVE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «plaintive» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of plaintive

Translation of «plaintive» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PLAINTIVE

Find out the translation of plaintive to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of plaintive from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «plaintive» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

> 哀伤的
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

lastimero
570 millions of speakers

English

plaintive
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

दर्दनाक
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

حزين
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

жалобный
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

lamentoso
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

দু: খজনক
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

plaintif
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Plaintif
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

klagend
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

もの悲しい
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

구슬픈
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Plaintive
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

rên rỉ
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

சோகமான
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

निरागस
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

ağlamaklı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

lamentoso
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

żałosny
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

жалібний
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

jalnic
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

θρηνώδης
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

klagend
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

plaintive
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

klag
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of plaintive

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PLAINTIVE»

The term «plaintive» is regularly used and occupies the 95.966 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PLAINTIVE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «plaintive» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «plaintive» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about plaintive

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2 QUOTES WITH «PLAINTIVE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word plaintive.
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Lydia M. Child
The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos.
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Linda Grant
I am not by any stretch of the imagination a tidy person, and the piles of unread books on the coffee table and by my bed have a plaintive, pleading quality to me - 'Read me, please!'

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PLAINTIVE»

Discover the use of plaintive in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to plaintive and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
A Bleat Plaintive
It is a great book written in simple poetic verses on the 'Great British'. This book is dedicated to Her Majesty the Queen Elizabeth II in 1999.
Raja Choudary Sajja, Narendra Sajja, 2004
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Plaintive Voices of Haiti to the World
This is a book that going to bring to the light who are responsible for Haitian people's misery and will explain also the self-denial of a group of Haitian in Haiti and overseas for the cause of Haiti and for the benefit of the Haitian ...
Rameau Pierre, 2010
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Hair Powder: A Plaintive Epistle to Mr. Pitt
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process.
Peter Pindar, 2009
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Idyles of an Idler; an Original Olio of Pleasant and ...
Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Idler, 2012
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The Shepheardes Calender: An Introduction
contrast to the fables he creates in the Moral, Spenser in the Plaintive composes a myth. He depicts in Colin's history what can be described as an English version of the classical myth of Narcissus, a myth inextricably bound up with the ...
Lynn Staley Johnson, Lynn Staley, 2008
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Classical, Renaissance, and Postmodernist Acts of the ...
The four eclogues with Colin — January, June, November, and December — are designated "Plaintive" in E. K.'s three-way classification: the three that halve the year plus November. February, May, July, September, and October are "Moral," ...
O. B. Hardison, Arthur F. Kinney, 1996
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The Life and Adventures of Paul Plaintive, Esq.
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process.
Martin Gribaldus Swammerdam, 2008
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Hair Powder; a Plaintive Epistle to Mr Pitt, by Peter ...
In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind.
Peter Pindar, 2010
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The Life and Adventures of Paul Plaintive: An Author
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original.
Martin Gribaldus Swammerdam, 2008
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A Naturalist Along the Jersey Shore
26. A. Killdeer's. Plaintive. Call. on. the. Rutgers. Campus. Snow blankets most of the Rutgers campus, but here and there a bit of mud shows through. It is late February, and the weeks of cold and snow are wearing. The wind may blow strongly ...
Joanna Burger, 1996

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PLAINTIVE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term plaintive is used in the context of the following news items.
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Monday Blues! Asian markets open on plaintive note
Federal Reserve meeting and China woes continue to dominate the Asian markets as a new week begins, although experts and analysts are ... «Indiainfoline, Jul 15»
2
Market outlook: BSE Sensex, NSE Nifty might open lower on global …
BSE Sensex, NSE Nifty might open on a plaintive note amid losses on Wall Street and worries over China. (Express photo) ... «Financial Express, Jul 15»
3
Aussies 'licking their lips' over England indecision
It was a plaintive appeal that was happily endorsed by the Australia quicks even though they had performed such an emphatic demolition job ... «cricket.com.au, Jul 15»
4
Songs For A New World, St James Theatre review: Artful patchwork …
These different idioms don't sit together all that comfortably, and the dominant tone is sentimental — mostly plaintive, sometimes treacly, often ... «Evening Standard, Jul 15»
5
GLOBAL MARKETS-Asian shares skid as Fed monetary meeting …
SYDNEY/HONG KONG, July 27 (Reuters) - Asian shares began the week on a plaintive note amid losses on Wall Street and worries over ... «Reuters, Jul 15»
6
Why Growing Oil Glut May Be a Long-Term Expedient
... worse, a potential global exporter, overrode these plaintive protests of most OPEC members, now facing huge budget deficits going forward. «The Desert Sun, Jul 15»
7
Death Cab for Cutie review: Ambitious grandeur from indie rock …
... Kintsugi​, on stage a fresh-faced Gibbard reasserted his plaintive vocal clarity and compactly emotional lyrics as the band's key components. «Sydney Morning Herald, Jul 15»
8
Gold struggles to recover from 5-1/2-yr low
Asian shares began the week on a plaintive note amid losses on Wall Street and worries over China, while investors braced for a Federal ... «Zawya, Jul 15»
9
The NZD fared a little better
Good morning from Hamburg and welcome to our first Daily FX Report of this week. Asian shares began the week on a plaintive note amid ... «FXStreet, Jul 15»
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KLCI, key Asian markets off to weak start
Reuters reported Asian shares began the week on a plaintive note amid losses on Wall Street and worries over China, while investors braced ... «The Star Online, Jul 15»

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