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| Main Entry: |
lamenting
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sobbing |
| Synonyms: | lamentable, mournful, regretting, sad, sorrowful, unfortunate |
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| Main Entry: | plaintive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pathetic, woebegone |
| Synonyms: | beefing, bellyaching, cantankerous, crabby, cranky*, disconsolate, doleful, grief-stricken, grievous, grousing, grumpy*, heartrending, lamenting, lugubrious, melancholy, mournful, out of sorts, pathetic, piteous, pitiful, rueful, sad, saddening, sorrowful, wailing, wistful, woeful |
| Notes: | a plaintiff is the party who brings an action in a court of law, while plaintive means expressive of sorrow or melancholy |
| Antonyms: | cheerful, happy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | querulous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | grouchy, hard to please |
| Synonyms: | bearish, bemoaning, cantankerous, captious, carping, censorious, complaining, critical, cross, crying, deploring, discontented, dissatisfied, edgy, fault-finding, fretful, grousing, grumbling, grumbly, huffy irascible, irritable, lamenting, out of sorts peevish, petulant, plaintive, scrappy, snappy, sour, testy, thin-skinned touchy, uptight, wailing, waspish, waspy, whimpering, whining, whiny |
| Antonyms: | cheerful, easy-going, happy |
| Main Entry: | tearful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | crying, very upset |
| Synonyms: | bawling, blubbering, blubbery, distressed, dolorous, in tears, lachrymose, lamentable, lamenting, moist, mournful, pathetic, pitiable, pitiful, poignant, sad, sniveling, sobbing, sorrowful, teary, watery, weeping, weepy, wet, whimpering, woeful |
| Antonyms: | cheerful, happy |
| Main Entry: | complaining |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | objecting |
| Synonyms: | accusing, bellyaching, bewailing, charging, critical, deploring, disapproving, discontented, dissenting, fretting, grumbling, lamenting, malcontent, moaning, mourning, murmuring, peevish, protesting, querulous, regretting, repining, resentful, weeping, whining |
| Antonyms: | appreciating, enjoying, praising |
| Main Entry: | teary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | tearful |
| Synonyms: | bawling, blubbering, blubbery, distressed, dolorous, in tears, lachrymose, lamentable, lamenting, moist, mournful, pathetic, pitiable, pitiful, poignant, sad, sniveling, sobbing, sorrowful, watery, weeping, weepy, wet, whimpering, woeful |
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| Concept: | Cry. |
| Category: | 2. Sensation; special sensation; sound; specific sounds |
| Synonyms: |
-adjectives
crying; clamant, clamorous; vociferous; stentorian (loud); open-mouthed.
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| Concept: | Regret. |
| Category: | 1. Passive Affections |
| Synonyms: |
-adjectives
regretting; regretful; homesick., regretted; much to be regretted, regrettable; lamentable (bad).
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