complaintive

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complaintive

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From complaint + -ive.

adjective more complaintive · most complaintive

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.

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@misc{complaintive_2026,
  title = {complaintive},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/complaintive},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}