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plaintive synonyms

Trying to find another word for plaintive in English? No problem. Our thesaurus contains synonyms of plaintive in 27 different contexts. We have listed all the similar and related words for plaintive alphabetically.

  • bellyaching
  • cantankerous
  • crabby
  • cranky
  • disconsolate
  • doleful
  • grief-stricken
  • grievous
  • grousing
  • grumpy
  • bemoan
  • bitch
  • fuss
  • gripe
  • groan
  • grumble
  • protest
  • whine
  • bad-tempered
  • bearish
  • captious
  • choleric
  • contrary
  • cranky
  • critical
  • cross
  • crotchety
  • crusty
  • acid
  • acrid
  • acrimonious
  • awkward
  • bad-tempered
  • blunt
  • brusque
  • captious
  • choleric
  • chuffy
  • bad-humored
  • bearish
  • cantankerous
  • choleric
  • crabby
  • cross
  • crotchety
  • cussed
  • disagreeable
  • got up on wrong side of bed
  • bad
  • black
  • blue
  • cheerless
  • cold
  • comfortless
  • crestfallen
  • crushed
  • dark
  • dejected
  • afflicted
  • cast down
  • cheerless
  • crestfallen
  • dejected
  • depressed
  • dirgeful
  • dismal
  • dispirited
  • distressing
  • anguished
  • cheerless
  • dejected
  • depressed
  • despairing
  • devastated
  • distressed
  • down
  • heartbroken
  • heartsick
  • afflicting
  • agonizing
  • appalling
  • atrocious
  • calamitous
  • damaging
  • deplorable
  • dire
  • dismal
  • disquieting
  • bellyaching
  • caviling
  • censorious
  • critical
  • criticizing
  • deprecatory
  • disparaging
  • fault-finding
  • griping
  • grouchy
  • bad-tempered
  • cantankerous
  • crabby
  • cross
  • crotchety
  • disgruntled
  • dissatisfied
  • griping
  • grouchy
  • grumbling
  • agonizing
  • distressing
  • doleful
  • excruciating
  • harrowing
  • heartbreaking
  • heartsickening
  • moving
  • piteous
  • pitiful
  • lamentable
  • mournful
  • regretting
  • sad
  • sorrowful
  • unfortunate
  • gloomy
  • mournful
  • pensive
  • sad
  • sorrowful
  • blue
  • dejected
  • despondent
  • destroyed
  • disconsolate
  • dismal
  • dispirited
  • doleful
  • dolorous
  • down
  • anguished
  • bereft
  • cheerless
  • depressed
  • disconsolate
  • distressing
  • doleful
  • dolent
  • forlorn
  • full of sorrow
  • below par
  • out of humor
  • under the weather
  • unwell
  • commiserable
  • deplorable
  • distressing
  • feeble
  • heartbreaking
  • heartrending
  • inadequate
  • lamentable
  • meager
  • melting
  • beseeching
  • commiserable
  • deplorable
  • distressing
  • doleful
  • dolorous
  • entreating
  • grievous
  • heartbreaking
  • heartrending
  • abject
  • affecting
  • afflicted
  • arousing
  • base
  • beggarly
  • cheap
  • cheerless
  • comfortless
  • commiserative
  • apologetic
  • ashamed
  • deplorable
  • lamentable
  • mournful
  • remorseful
  • repentant
  • sad
  • sorrowful
  • sorry
  • bereaved
  • bitter
  • blue
  • cheerless
  • dejected
  • despairing
  • despondent
  • disconsolate
  • dismal
  • distressed
  • break one's heart
  • bring one down
  • bum out
  • cast down
  • dampen spirits
  • dash
  • deject
  • deplore
  • desolate
  • discourage
  • affecting
  • afflicted
  • dejected
  • depressed
  • disconsolate
  • distressing
  • doleful
  • dolent
  • full of sorrow
  • grievous
  • bawl
  • bawling
  • bewailing
  • blubber
  • blubbering
  • howl
  • howling
  • keening
  • lament
  • lamentation
  • contemplative
  • desirous
  • disconsolate
  • dreaming
  • dreamy
  • forlorn
  • hopeless
  • meditative
  • melancholy
  • mournful
  • afflicted
  • agonized
  • anguished
  • appalling
  • awful
  • bad
  • calamitous
  • catastrophic
  • cruel
  • deplorable
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