Plangent

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  plangent
       adj : loud and resounding; "plangent bells"; "the plangent
             minority"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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