plaint
Expression of grief
A plaint is a complaint or lamentation—a formal expression of grievance or sorrow.
The word is literary and archaic, appearing mainly in older texts or legal contexts.
In law, a plaint is the written statement of a plaintiff's cause of action: The plaint alleged breach of contract.
The poetic sense suggests mournful utterance: a plaint of lost love.
Poem lamenting the departed
- dirgeMournful commemorative music
- keeningVocal mourning for dead
- mourningPeriod following loss
- woeGreat sorrow or distress
sorrow · grief · anguish · bereavement · heartache · weeping · cry · bemoan
Assertion lacking proof
- lawsuitCivil court proceeding
- grievanceFormal claim of unfairness
- petitionFormal written appeal
- litigationLegal dispute process
defendant · summons · filing · civil action · damages · injunction · cause of action · pleading
Formal request or defense
- supplicationHumble plea for help
- appealFormal review request
- petitionFormal written appeal
- entreatyEarnest, urgent request
beseeching · imploration · prayer · intercession · cry · request · adjuration · importunity
elegy
Poem lamenting the departed
woe · sorrow · grief · anguish · bereavement · heartache · weeping · cry · bemoan · mournfulness
allegation
Assertion lacking proof
litigation · defendant · summons · filing · civil action · damages · injunction · cause of action · pleading · claim
plea
Formal request or defense
- supplicationHumble plea for help
- appealFormal review request
- petitionFormal written appeal
entreaty · beseeching · imploration · prayer · intercession · cry · request · adjuration · importunity · solicitation
- lamentswailing, keen, keening, moaning, groaning
- vocal musicsong, vocals, soprano, tenor, alto
- elegieselegies, laments, dirges, death poem, keening
- funeral musicdirge, requiem, funeral march, funeral hymns, death march
- griefgrief, mourning, bereavement, sorrow, grieving
- balladsballads, balladry, power ballads, pop ballads, country ballads
plaintrejoicing
Feeling or showing triumph
exultation · jubilation · celebration · cheering · laughing
plaintpraise
Expression of approval
commendation · applause · plaudit · endorsement · indorsement
complain, complaint, complaining, complaints, plaintive, complains, complained, plaintiff, complainant