What does plangent mean?
Plangent means Having a loud, mournful sound..
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/ˈplænd͡ʒənt/ · adjective
Having a loud, mournful sound..
[S]how him a refined or powerful face, let him hear a plangent or a penetrating voice […] and his mind was instantaneously awakened.
Since mid-day their plangent, disquieting cries had foretold its approach.
[…] who then marched together into eternal glory in plangent ceremonies.
In the lament about the massacre — the work’s second movement — he entered a more urgent register in the high reaches of the cello, but the sense of grief was more plangent than raw, devoid of any real outrage.
What central sea with plume-plucked midnight strewn, Plangent to what enormous plenilune That lifts in silence, hinderless and stark?
Use plangent when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Plangent means Having a loud, mournful sound..
Common synonyms include full.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
[S]how him a refined or powerful face, let him hear a plangent or a penetrating voice […] and his mind was instantaneously awakened.
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