sounding sad, especially in a weak, complaining way synonym mournful(声音)悲伤的,哀怨的 a plaintive cry/voice 凄楚的哭泣/声音
Oxford Collocations DictionaryPlaintive is used with these nouns:- cry
- melody
- voice
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Word Originlate Middle English: from Old French plaintif, -ive, from plainte ‘lamentation’, feminine past participle of plaindre ‘complain’, or from Old French plaint, from Latin planctus ‘beating of the breast’.