Usually means: Resonant, deep, often melancholy sound.
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  1. plangent: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. plangent: Merriam-Webster
  3. plangent: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. plangent: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. plangent: Collins English Dictionary
  6. plangent: Vocabulary.com
  7. plangent: Wordnik
  8. plangent: Wiktionary
  9. plangent: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. plangent: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. plangent: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Plangent, plangent: Dictionary.com
  13. plangent: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Plangent: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Plangent: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. plangent: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. plangent: Rhymezone
  18. plangent: Grandiloquent Dictionary
  19. Plangent: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. plangent: FreeDictionary.org
  21. plangent: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. plangent: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. plangent: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. plangent: A Word A Day
  2. plangent: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Plangent: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (plangent)

▸ adjective:  Having a loud, mournful sound.
▸ adjective:  (rare) Beating, dashing, as waves.

Similar:
full, plaintive, dirgeful, grave, lamentful, dolorous, moanful, gruntulous, lamentacious, sepulchral, more...

Opposite:
muted, soft, gentle, quiet

Types:
plaintive, plaint, more...

Colors:
    midnight blue,     deep indigo,     stormy gray,     charcoal,     navy blue, more...
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Similar:
full, plaintive, dirgeful, grave, lamentful, dolorous, moanful, gruntulous, lamentacious, sepulchral, more...

Opposite:
muted, soft, gentle, quiet

Types:
plaintive, plaint, more...

Colors:
    midnight blue,     deep indigo,     stormy gray,     charcoal,     navy blue, more...



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