plaint
3 synonyms for plaint, grouped by meaning and by how common each one is.
Noun — An expression of unhappiness about something.
Synonyms
Rare, literary or technical
Precise, but they will stand out — check the sense before using one.
Etymology
The word comes from Middle English plainte, itself borrowed from Anglo-Norman plainte (“lamentation”) and plaint (“lament”), and from Old French pleinte (“lamentation”) and pleint (“lament”) (surviving as modern French plainte). These trace back to Medieval Latin plancta (“plaint”), from Latin planctus (“a beating of t...
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