Plangent

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The American HeritageĀ® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Loud and resounding: plangent bells.
  • adj. Expressing or suggesting sadness; plaintive: "From a doorway came the plangent sounds of a guitarā€ ( Malcolm Lowry).
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. having a loud, mournful sound
  • adj. beating, dashing, as waves.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Beating; dashing, as a wave.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Beating; dashing, as waves.
  • Resounding; clashing; noisy.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. loud and resounding
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