plangent

[plan-juhnt]

adjective

1. resounding loudly, especially with a plaintive sound, as a bell.

plangent

/ ˈplændʒənt /

adjective

1. having a loud deep sound

2. resonant and mournful in sound

Other Word Forms

• plangency noun
• plangently adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of plangent¹

1815–25; < Latin plangent- (stem of plangēns ), present participle of plangere to beat, lament. See plain ², -ent

Word History and Origins

Origin of plangent¹

C19: from Latin plangere to beat (esp the breast, in grief); see _plain ²

Example Sentences

But they are also plangently individual, yearning to harmonize their fates with their true selves.

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In an era of plangent indie rock, they were the studied, intricate eccentrics.

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Adjuah sings in a keening, plangent tone, but at one point he pauses to offer a spoken invitation: “Listen to the wind,” he says.

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A clear highlight was “Amelia,” a plangent, airy meditation on freedom and flight.

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She shushed her daughters, sloshing in nearby mud, so she could tease out the source of some plangent rumble.

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