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Word of the Day for Sunday, September 7, 2008plaintive \PLAYN-tiv\, adjective: Expressive of sorrow or melancholy; mournful; sad. Meanwhile Jack Byron's plight in France was becoming desperate and his letters to his sister increasingly plaintive. The shadows have lengthened, and the night birds have begun their plaintive chorus. . . .the plaintive cries of loneliness of the immigrant. Plaintive derives from Old French plainte, "complaint," from Latin planctus, past participle of plangere, "to strike (one's breast), to lament." | |||||||||
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