Plangent (Adjective)
Meaning
Loud and resounding; "plangent bells"; "the plangent minority".
Classification
All adjective clusters.
Examples
- Plangent arguments advocating against all whiplashing incidents marked today's rally.
- The plangent melody echoed hauntingly across the forest, leaving all awestruck.
- Her voice rose to a plangent crescendo, an anguished cri de coeur for the children caught in a war.
- Outside the window, the plangent chimes of Big Ben seemed to be warning against inaction.
- History has consistently associated plangent cries with revolution, marking transformative ends to oppressive epochs.