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 Plain·tive a.
 1. Repining; complaining; lamenting.
 2. Expressive of sorrow or melancholy; mournful; sad. “The most plaintive ditty.”
 -- Plain*tive*ly, adv. -- Plain*tive*ness, n.
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 plaintiveness
      n : expressing sorrowfulness