plaintive

About 0.67 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Sounding sorrowful, mournful or melancholic.

   a typically plaintive song from Radiohead

Similar words

mournful sorrowful sad wailful moanful elegiac doleful sadful dolorous melancholy

Often followed by

and voice cry note cries tone song notes melody

Word family

plaintively plaintiveness plaintivenesses