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clangorous

  • a word derived from clangor.
    clangor
    noun
    a loud, resonant sound; clang.
  • a word derived from clangour.
    clangour
    noun
    a loud resonant often-repeated noise

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If cyborgs aren’t your thing, look away — but then you’d be missing one of the most welcomingly clangorous and charming tracks of 2023.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 4, 2023

As for “Tux and Fanny,” its animation is far more imaginative and more inspired than the clangorous gyrations of last year’s Oscar winner, “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.”

From The New Yorker ● May 28, 2019

It was a noisy, raucous, clangorous affair, and when the piece was playing, people emerged from the galleries and listened in wonder to the noise bouncing off every surface of Pei’s giant atrium.

From Washington Post ● May 17, 2019

It included a revival of the jeweled “Femenine” and a clangorous, intense evening of Eastman’s moody works for multiple pianos.

From New York Times ● Dec. 5, 2018

The air rang with the pounding of mighty hammers and the clangorous screech of iron on stone.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman