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Word Meanings - PLAINTIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Repining; complaining; lamenting. Dryden. 2. Expressive of sorrow or melancholy; mournful; sad. "The most plaintive ditty." Landor. -- Plain"tive*ly, adv. -- Plain"tive*ness, n.

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  • DEATHLIKE
    1. Resembling death. A deathlike slumber, and a dead repose. Pope. 2. Deadly. "Deathlike dragons." Shak.
  • SOLEMNIZATION
    The act of solemnizing; celebration; as, the solemnization of a marriage.
  • SOLEMNIZE
    1. To perform with solemn or ritual ceremonies, or according to legal forms. Baptism to be administered in one place, and marriage solemnized in another. Hooker. 2. To dignify or honor by ceremonies; to celebrate. Their choice nobility and flowers
  • MOURNFUL
    Full of sorrow; expressing, or intended to express, sorrow; mourning; grieving; sad; also, causing sorrow; saddening; grievous; as, a mournful person; mournful looks, tones, loss. -- Mourn"ful*ly, adv. -- Mourn"ful*ness, n. Syn. -- Sorrowful;
  • SOLEMN
    Made in form; ceremonious; as, solemn war; conforming with all legal requirements; as, probate in solemn form. Burrill. Jarman. Greenleaf. Solemn League and Covenant. See Covenant, 2. Syn. -- Grave; formal; ritual; ceremonial; sober; serious;
  • PLAINTIVE
    1. Repining; complaining; lamenting. Dryden. 2. Expressive of sorrow or melancholy; mournful; sad. "The most plaintive ditty." Landor. -- Plain"tive*ly, adv. -- Plain"tive*ness, n.
  • DISMALLY
    In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
  • SOLEMNIZATE
    To solemnize; as, to solemnizate matrimony. Bp. Burnet.
  • FUNEREAL
    Suiting a funeral; pertaining to burial; solemn. Hence: Dark; dismal; mournful. Jer. Taylor. What seem to us but sad funereal tapers May be heaven's distant lamps. Longfellow. -- Fu*ne"re*al*ly, adv.
  • SOLEMNLY
    In a solemn manner; with gravity; seriously; formally. There in deaf murmurs solemnly are wise. Dryden. I do solemnly assure the reader. Swift.
  • DISMAL
    dismalle." Chaucer. Of uncertain origin; but perh. (as suggested by Skeat) from OF. disme, F. dîme, tithe, the phrase dismal day properly 1. Fatal; ill-omened; unlucky. An ugly fiend more foul than dismal day. Spenser. 2. Gloomy to the eye or
  • SOLEMNNESS
    The state or quality of being solemn; solemnity; impressiveness; gravity; as, the solemnness of public worship.
  • WOEFULNESS; WOFULNESS
    The quality or state of being woeful; misery; wretchedness.
  • WOEFUL; WOFUL
    1. Full of woe; sorrowful; distressed with grief or calamity; afflicted; wretched; unhappy; sad. How many woeful widows left to bow To sad disgrace! Daniel. 2. Bringing calamity, distress, or affliction; as, a woeful event; woeful want. O woeful
  • SOMBRERO
    A kind of broad-brimmed hat, worn in Spain and in Spanish America. Marryat.
  • SOLEMNITY
    A solemn or formal observance; proceeding according to due form; the formality which is necessary to render a thing done valid. (more info) 1. A rite or ceremony performed with religious reverence; religious or ritual ceremony; as, the solemnity
  • SOLEMNIZER
    One who solemnizes.
  • SOLEMNESS
    Solemnness. Some think he wanted solemnes. Sir H. Wotton.
  • WOEFULLY; WOFULLY
    In a woeful manner; sorrowfully; mournfully; miserably; dolefully.
  • DISMALNESS
    The quality of being dismal; gloominess.
  • SOMBERNESS; SOMBRENESS
    The quality or state of being somber; gloominess.
  • UNSOLEMNIZE
    To divest of solemnity.

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