What does plaint mean?
Plaint means A complaint..
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/pleɪnt/ · noun
A complaint..
she seemed to repeat, though with perceptible resignation, her plaint of a moment before. ‘Your father, darling, is a very odd person indeed.’
In the first paroxysm of his grief, Ingolfr exclaimed, (what sorrowing heart has not echoed his plaint?) that he could never more taste of joy.
His shriek was as feeble as the plaint of a grass-stalk in a storm.
I heard voices calling to me, just discernible above the engine noise; I stopped, and switched off. There were no voices, nothing, but far, far away the plaint of an unmilked cow.
Once the plaint had been made there was nothing that could be done to revoke it.
Use plaint when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Plaint means A complaint..
Common synonyms include lament, wail, lamentation.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
she seemed to repeat, though with perceptible resignation, her plaint of a moment before. ‘Your father, darling, is a very odd person indeed.’
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