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complaintive

adj

Etymology

From complaint + -ive.

  1. derived from planctus
  2. derived from compleindre
  3. derived from compleint
  4. derived from compleynte
  5. suffixed as complaintive — “complaint + ive”

Definitions

  1. Tending to complain, characterized by complaining.

    • The winding streams and hanging hills repeat / Loud groans from ev'ry herd, from ev'ry fold / Complaintive murmurs; heaps on heaps they fall, / There where they fall they lie, corrupt and rot.
    • On the Chroncicle Careers website, as well as other mainstream university education publications, I've read articles - some complaintive, some pleased - about how college education nowadays is so 'client-based'.
    • The majority of the medical conversations was traditional (37%) or cooperative (37%), while another 25% was more or less conflicting or complaintive in nature.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA