plaint

1. 1.

   (United Kingdom) a written statement of the grounds of complaint made to court of law asking for the grievance to be redressed

   Broaderallegation

   United Kingdom

2. 2.

   a cry of sorrow and grief

   “their pitiful laments could be heard throughout the ward”

   Synonymslamentlamentationwail

   Broadercomplaint

Other forms of plaint

plural

plaints·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about plaint

What does plaint mean?

plaint means "(United Kingdom) a written statement of the grounds of complaint made to court of law asking for the grievance to be redressed". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in plaint?

plaint has 1 syllable: plaint.

What is another word for plaint?

Close synonyms include lament, lamentation, wail. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is plaint a common word?

plaint is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.