adjective
- having a deep reverberating sound; resonant and mournful
Usage: literary
Examples
- The plangent sound of the church bells echoed across the valley.
- Her plangent voice filled the concert hall with melancholy.
- The plangent notes of the cello moved the audience to tears.
- Thunder rolled across the sky in plangent waves.
- The poet’s plangent verses captured the sorrow of loss.
- A plangent horn sounded in the distance.