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Plaintive vs Lamenting - What's the difference?

plaintive | lamenting | Synonyms |

As an adjective plaintive

is sounding sorrowful, mournful or melancholic.

As a verb lamenting is

present participle of lang=en.

As a noun lamenting is

lamentation.

plaintive

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Sounding sorrowful, mournful or melancholic.

    • Related terms

    * plaint * plaintiff

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    lamenting

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • lamentation
  • * Shakespeare
    • The night has been unruly: where we lay, / Our chimneys were blown down, and, as they say, / Lamentings heard i' th' air, strange screams of death

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