complaintive
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Tending to complain, characterized by complaining.
Example Sentences
- "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."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more complaintive (comparative)
most complaintive (superlative)