plaintive
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1. plaintive - Noun
2. plaintive - Adjective
3. plaintive - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Repining; complaining; lamenting.
Expressive of sorrow or melancholy; mournful; sad.
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Both the male and female sing during the winter, when they hold separate territories, the song then sounding more plaintive than the summer version.
Billboard described the first as "a collection of plaintive demos" and the other "chock-a-block with punk guitar missives."
'It only takes a little imagination for the sinister jails to resound once again with the plaintive echo of the prisoners, the rattling of chains and the creaking of their heavy doors.
The plaintive lament of Garth Clarke of North Sydney about the absence of his morning (C8) struck a chord with pretty much everyone who read it.
Eric inserted quotations from Thoreau, Whitman and other American authors in his music as well as his own sometimes angry, sometimes plaintive texts about the destruction of nature and murder of animals by greed and ignorance.
But when you listen to their first three records, the name that most readily comes to mind is Skynyrd’s erstwhile rival Neil Young, whose plaintive, moonlight warble provides the foundation for much of James’ early work.