Usually means: Expressing sorrow or melancholy softly.
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We found 16 dictionaries that define the word plaintively:

General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. plaintively: Merriam-Webster
  2. plaintively: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. plaintively: Collins English Dictionary
  4. plaintively: Vocabulary.com
  5. Plaintively, plaintively: Wordnik
  6. plaintively: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. plaintively: Wiktionary
  8. plaintively: Dictionary.com
  9. plaintively: Rhymezone
  10. plaintively: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  11. plaintively: FreeDictionary.org
  12. plaintively: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. plaintively: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. plaintively: Legal dictionary

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▸ adverb:  In a plaintive manner.

Similar:
piteously, lamentingly, painedly, weepily, plangently, poignantly, pathetically, despondingly, grievingly, moanfully, more...

Opposite:
loudly

Phrases:
moaned plaintively, more...

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Similar:
piteously, lamentingly, painedly, weepily, plangently, poignantly, pathetically, despondingly, grievingly, moanfully, more...

Opposite:
loudly

Phrases:
moaned plaintively, more...



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