每日猜词：你一定会猜错系列之五

看单词，猜词意，今日单词：plaintive

背单词打卡 2023.08.18

plain作为名词大家都是知道的。那么加上“tive”毫无疑问就是这个名词的形容词形式了。但是错了，因为plain本身也可以是一个形容词，所以不需要后缀“tive”加持。先猜一下词义，然后再查词典，意外可以让我们更容易的记住单词。

例句：

They lay on the firm sands, listening to the plaintive cry of the seagulls.

Read the word and guess the meaning, today's word: plaintive

We all know plain as a noun. The addition of "tive" would undoubtedly be the adjective form of the noun. But that's not true, because plain can be an adjective in its own right, so it doesn't need the suffix "tive". Please guess the meaning of the word first, and then look it up in the dictionary. The unexpected can help us to remember words more easily.