plangent
/ˈplænd͡ʒənt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.45 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "[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?"
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more plangent (comparative)
most plangent (superlative)