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plangent

/ˈplænd͡ʒənt/

plangent adjective: having a loud, mournful sound.

Adjective

plangent (comparative more plangent, superlative most plangent)

  1. 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.1879, Robert Louis Stevenson, “chapter 1”, in The Story of a Lie
    • Since mid-day their plangent, disquieting cries had foretold its approach.1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth (Duckworth hardback), page 49
  2. (rare) Beating, dashing, as waves.
    • What central sea with plume-plucked midnight strewn,
      Plangent to what enormous plenilune
      That lifts in silence, hinderless and stark?1922, Clark Ashton Smith, Desire of Vastness

plangent meaning in Malayalam

plangent in Malayalam

mournful, melancholy, plaintive
തിരതല്ലുന്ന, വിഷാദമുള്ള, സങ്കടകരമായ, ദുഃഖാകുലമായ, ശോകാകുലമായ, മുറയിടുന്ന

Forms of plangent

comparativemore plangent
superlativemost plangent

Origin of plangent

From Latin plangēns, present participle of plangō (“to beat; to lament”).

Words that rhyme with plangent

Questions about plangent

What does plangent mean?
Plangent means having a loud, mournful sound.
What is plangent in Malayalam?
Plangent in Malayalam is തിരതല്ലുന്ന, വിഷാദമുള്ള, സങ്കടകരമായ. See Plangent meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is plangent?
Plangent is an adjective.
How do you pronounce plangent?
Plangent is pronounced /ˈplænd͡ʒənt/.

Words near plangent in the dictionary

  1. planfully
  2. planfulness
  3. plangence
  4. plangencies
  5. plangency
  6. plangent
  7. plangently
  8. plangonologist
  9. plangonologists
  10. plangorous
  11. planholder

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Adapted from Wiktionary: plangent (page history and authors); plangent (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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