Crossword-Solution: PLAINTIVE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Plaintive | n. | Repining; complaining; lamenting. |
| Plaintive | n. | Expressive of sorrow or melancholy; mournful; sad. |
We have 23 clues for the answer “PLAINTIVE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| ELEGIAC | 5 answers |
| Prosecutor. | 16 answers |
| dolorous | 24 answers |
| heartbreaking | 27 answers |
| Regrettable | 27 answers |
| dolesome | 31 answers |
| afflictive | 31 answers |
| Barrister | 35 answers |
| lamentable | 36 answers |
| ATTORNEY ___ | 39 answers |
| Claimant | 41 answers |
| lugubrious | 44 answers |
| disputant | 46 answers |
| Calamitous | 46 answers |
| Lamenting | 55 answers |
| grievous | 61 answers |
| Mournful | 63 answers |
| Pathetic | 65 answers |
| Pitiful | 71 answers |
| Doleful. | 72 answers |
| sorrowful | 76 answers |
| Sad | 86 answers |
| Melancholy | 87 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
REEAT
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PLAINTIVE (5)
All this time the chestnuts and the jug went round and round; and by-and-bye they had a song, about a lost child travelling in the snow, from Tiny Tim, who had a plaintive little voice, and sang it very well indeed.
Inside the den they saw the strange white ape lying half across a table, his head buried in his arms; and on the bed lay a figure covered by a sailcloth, while from a tiny rustic cradle came the plaintive wailing of a babe.
His performance, therefore, might have been termed very respectable by abler judges than the hermit, especially as the knight threw into the notes now a degree of spirit, and now of plaintive enthusiasm, which gave force and energy to the verses which he sung.
The little girl raised the marred face to hers and rocking herself backward and forward crooned a plaintive Arab lullaby to the doll.
One piece which that lady played Edna had entitled “Solitude.” It was a short, plaintive, minor strain.
Quotes with PLAINTIVE (3)
... always-the sharp, plaintive edgeon the rimof the spoonof my giving.(lines 8-13 of the poem 'Confessions')
She called me ‘my lady,’ ”she told him in a plaintive voice. “I don’t know who that is. I’m no lady.” The last of his fury faded away to be replaced with a quick gleam. He peered under the sheet. “I can attest to that.
And I often dream of chemistry at night, dreams that conflate the past and the present, the grid of the periodic table transformed to the grid of Manhattan. […] Sometimes, too, I dream of the indecipherable language of tin (a confused memory, perhaps, of its plaintive “cry”). But my favorite dream is of going to the opera (I am Hafnium), sharing a box at the Met with the other heavy transition metals — my old and valued friends — Tantalum, Rhenium, Osmium, Iridium, Platinum, Gold, and Tungsten.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1971–1999).