plangent

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plangent |ˈplanjənt|

adjective

chiefly poetic/literary (of a sound) loud, reverberating, and often melancholy. DERIVATIVES plangency noun plangently adverb ORIGIN early 19th cent.: from Latin plangent- ‘lamenting,’ from the verb plangere.

Thesaurus

plangent adjective literary a plangent moan from somewhere not too distant melancholy, mournful, plaintive; sonorous, resonant, loud.