That complains; lamenting, murmuring, querulous.

Plaintive, mournful.

Of sounds: Dreary, cheerless, woeful. (In late use chiefly subjective, as in B. 6.)

Of an animal or thing: uttering or producing sounds suggestive of complaint; plaintive.

That groans, in senses of the verb.

Having the character of a lament; expressive of sorrow; mournful, sad.

transferred. Of inanimate things: Grim or desolate of aspect; †(of a sound), suggestive of desolation.