Plangent \Plan"gent\, a. [L. plangens, -entis, fr. plangere to
beat. See Plaint.]
Beating; dashing, as a wave. [R.] "The plangent wave." --H.
Taylor.
[1913 Webster] Plani
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
plangent
adj : loud and resounding; "plangent bells"; "the plangent
minority"
WordNet (r) 2.0
75 Moby Thesaurus words for "plangent":
Jeremianic, aggrieved, anguished, booming, careworn, complaining,
consonant, deafening, doleful, dolorous, dumb with grief,
ear-piercing, ear-rending, ear-splitting, earthshaking,
faultfinding, forte, fortissimo, fretful, full, grief-stricken,
griefful, grieved, grievous, howling, in grief, lamentable,
lamentive, loud, loud-sounding, loudish, lugubrious, mellow,
moanful, mournful, orotund, pealing, peevish, petulant, piercing,
plaintive, plunged in grief, puling, pulsing, querulous, resonant,
resonating, resounding, rich, ringing, rolling, rotund, round,
rueful, sonorous, sorrowed, sorrowful, sorrowing, stentoraphonic,
stentorian, stentorious, tearful, throbbing, thunderous,
tonitruant, tonitruous, ululant, vibrant, vibrating, wailful,
whimpering, whining, whiny, window-rattling, woeful
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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