Synonyms of plaintive

adjectiveSounding sorrowful, mournful or melancholic.

• miserableIn a state of misery: very sad, ill, or poor.
• unhappyNot happy; sad.
• cheerlessDevoid of cheer; gloomy.
• comfortless
• bleak
• darkExtremely sad, depressing, or somber, typically due to, or marked by, a tragic or undesirable event.
• moroseSullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour.
• depressing
• desolateSad, forlorn and hopeless.
• dire
• disconsolateSeemingly beyond consolation; inconsolable.
• dismalDepressing, dreary, cheerless.
• dolefulFilled with grief, mournful, bringing feelings of sadness.
• dolesomeCharacterised or marked by sorrow and grief; doleful; dismal; gloomy.
• drearDreary.
• drearisomeCharacterised or marked by dreariness.
• dreary
• dreich UK, dialectal
• forlornPitifully sad, wretched, miserable; lonely, especially from feeling abandoned, deserted, forsaken.
• gayless
• gray
• gloomsomeCharacterised or marked by gloom.
• gloomySuffering from gloom; melancholy; dejected.
• grim
• joylessWithout joy; unhappy, sad.
• lack-laughterCheerless; sombre; serious.
• lugubriousGloomy, mournful or dismal, especially to an exaggerated degree.
• melancholyAffected with great sadness or depression.
• mirthlessLacking mirth; devoid of joy; sad.
• no joke
• saturnineOf a person: having a tendency to be cold and gloomy.
• somber
• sombreMelancholic, gloomy, dreary, dismal; grim.
• spiritlessLacking energy, drive, motivation or emotion. Enervated.
• sullenGloomy; dismal; foreboding.
• sunless
• uncheerfulNot cheerful.
• uncheeryNot cheery; gloomy, pessimistic.
• unmerryNot merry, the opposite of merry; sad, gloomy.
• wintry
• woefulFull of woe; sorrowful; distressed with grief or calamity.
• atrabiliary
• atrabilious
• blithelessWithout happiness or joy; unjoyful; sorrowful; sad.
• dispiritedWithout energy, gusto or drive, enervated, without the will to accomplish, disheartened.
• blueDepressed, melancholic, sad.
• bummed outDepressed, disappointed, in a gloomy mood.
• chapfallenCrestfallen, dejected.
• chopfallenSynonym of chapfallen.
• crestfallen
• cut up Australia, UKEmotionally upset; mentally distressed.
• damp figuratively
• dejectedSad and dispirited.
• depressedUnhappy; despondent.
• despondentIn low spirits from loss of hope or courage.
• disgruntledIn a dissatisfied, frustrated, or upset mood; in a bad temper or ill humour.
• disheartenedDiscouraged, despairing.
• downSad, unhappy, depressed, feeling low.
• down in the dumpsSad; lacking engagement or enthusiasm.
• down in the mouthSad or discouraged, especially as indicated by one's facial appearance.
• downcastOf a person: feeling despondent or discouraged.
• downheartedSad, discouraged, in low spirits, unhappy, having no hope.
• downsomeLow-spirited; melancholy.
• dullBored, depressed, down.
• elegiacExpressing sorrow or mourning.
• elegiousMelancholy, miserable, plaintive.
• glumDespondent; moody; sullen.
• grief-strickenVery sad.
• grievingFeeling or showing sorrow or distress due to loss, especially the death of someone.
• heavy-heartedSad, melancholic.
• heartsoreHeartsick.
• heartsickVery despondent or sorrowful; heartsore.
• inconsolableNot consolable; unable to be consoled or comforted, usually due to grief, disappointment, or other distress.
• infelicitous
• jawfallenDejected, dispirited.
• lachrymoseTearful, sorrowful, sad, pertaining to tears, weeping, causing tears or crying.
• lowDepressed in mood, dejected, sad.
• low-spiritedDisheartened, feeling low, in low spirits.
• melancholicFilled with or affected by melancholy—great sadness or depression, especially of a thoughtful or introspective nature.
• moodySulky or depressed.
• mopeyGiven to moping; in a depressed condition, low in spirits; lackadaisical.
• mournfulFilled with grief or sadness; being in a state in which one mourns.
• PlutonianOf, relating to, or having characteristics associated with the underworld; dark, gloomy; mournful.
• PlutonicSynonym of Plutonian (“of, relating to, or having characteristics associated with the underworld; dark, gloomy...
• querulousOften complaining; suggesting a complaint in expression; fretful, whining.
• ruthfulFull of sorrow; sorrowful; woeful; rueful.
• sad
• saddened
• shatteredEmotionally defeated or dispirited.
• solemn
• sorrowfulExhibiting sorrow; dejected; distraught; sad. (of a person).
• sorrow-riddenFilled with sorrow or sorrows.
• sorrowsomeMarked by sorrow; sad; dreary; sorrowful.
• threneticSorrowful; mournful.
• threneticalThrenetic.
• unconsolableSynonym of inconsolable.
• unlivelyNot lively.
• wistfulSad and thoughtful.
• woebegoneOf a person: deeply affected or overwhelmed by suffering or trouble, and so filled with woe (“great distress or...
• wretchedCharacterized by or feeling deep affliction or distress; very miserable.
• lamentful rareReplete with lamentation; mournful.
• lumpish obsoleteMiserable, sad.
• passionate obsolete
• triste rareSad; sorrowful; gloomy.
• tristful archaicSad, melancholic.
• woe obsoleteWoeful; sorrowful.