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lamentive

lamentive adjective: being or relating to a lamentation.

Adjective

lamentive (comparative more lamentive, superlative most lamentive)

  1. Being or relating to a lamentation.
    • With the Death's-head moth, this sound is given out when confined or taken into the band, and is likened to the cry of a mouse, but is said to be more plaintive and even lamentive.1859, The Canadian Naturalist and Geologist, volume 4, page 129

Forms of lamentive

comparativemore lamentive
superlativemost lamentive

Questions about lamentive

What does lamentive mean?
Lamentive means being or relating to a lamentation.
What part of speech is lamentive?
Lamentive is an adjective.

Words near lamentive in the dictionary

  1. lamentin
  2. lamenting
  3. lamentingly
  4. lamentings
  5. lamentins
  6. lamentive
  7. lamentless
  8. lamentory
  9. lamentoso
  10. laments
  11. lameo

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