Difference between Plaintive and Sorrowful

PLAINTIVE vs SORROWFUL: ADJECTIVE

Experiencing or marked by or expressing sorrow especially that associated with irreparable loss
Feeling, showing, or expressing sorrow. : sad.
Full of sorrow; exhibiting sorrow; sad; dejected; distressed.
Producing sorrow; exciting grief; mournful; lamentable; grievous.
Of a person, full of sorrow; exhibiting sorrow; sad; dejected; distressed; distraught.
Causing sorrow.

1. Lamenting; complaining; giving utterance to sorrow or grief; repining.
Expressive of sorrow or melancholy; mournful; sad: said of things: as, a plaintive sound; a plaintive air; a plaintive song.
Synonyms Plaintive, Querulous, woful, rueful. Plaintive and querulous agree in expressing weakness. He who is querulous is ready to find fault over trivial matters, and in a weak, captious, tired way; there is a tone recognized as querlous. Plaintive is rarely said of persons; a plaintive tone or utterance conveys a subdued regret or lamentation : as, the plaintive note of the mourning dove. See petulant.

Tuneful, Soulful, Mellifluous, Melodious, Poignant, Breathy, Doleful, Elegiac, Wistful, Melancholic, Melancholy, Plangent, Sad, Sorrowful, Mournful

Mourning, Heartbroken, Weeping, Tearful, Brokenhearted, Dolorous, Grieving, Anguished, Plaintive, Sorrowing, Sad, Elegiac, Heartbreaking, Heartrending, Mournful

Tuneful, Soulful, Mellifluous, Melodious, Poignant, Breathy, Doleful, Elegiac, Wistful, Melancholic, Melancholy, Plangent, Sad, Sorrowful, Mournful

Mourning, Heartbroken, Weeping, Tearful, Brokenhearted, Dolorous, Grieving, Anguished, Plaintive, Sorrowing, Sad, Elegiac, Heartbreaking, Heartrending, Mournful

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There was an almost plaintive note in his anger.
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But this plaintive reply does not move Dante.
The severed breast still appeared lonely and plaintive.
You show me which are the plaintive keys.
In plaintive notes he prophesies his own discovery.
The life and adventures of Paul Plaintive, esq.
The humbly plaintive voice is, however, more typical.

It was so sorrowful that my eyes teared up.
John the Divine are not so sorrowful as yesterday.
When he spoke his voice was resigned and sorrowful.
Patrons modulate dollar from sorrowful walk of American drugs.
He would always look like a sorrowful white boy.
It will free your mind of sorrowful thoughts.
To this sorrowful appeal Moses answers with encouragement.
Francis Hospital, Sisters of the Sorrowful Mother, Rev.
It is sorrowful only for those left behind.
Parting is sorrowful but to choose the other over God is more sorrowful and has eternal consequences.