Adjective: plangent
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more plangent |
| Superlative | most plangent |
Sample Sentences
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[S]how him a refined or powerful face, let him hear a plangent or a penetrating voice […] and his mind was instantaneously awakened. [1879, Robert Louis Stevenson, “chapter 1”, in The Story of a Lie:]
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Since mid-day their plangent, disquieting cries had foretold its approach. [1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth (Duckworth hardback), page 49:]
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[…] who then marched together into eternal glory in plangent ceremonies. [2000, Michael Burleigh, The Third Reich, →ISBN Invalid ISBN, page 8:]
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In the lament about the massacre — the work’s second movement — he entered a more urgent register in the high reaches of the cello, but the sense of grief was more plangent than raw, devoid of any real outrage. [2013 Sept. 22, Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim, “Music Review: A Middle East Mourned and Celebrated in Suites”, in New York Times:]
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What central sea with plume-plucked midnight strewn,
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Plangent to what enormous plenilune
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That lifts in silence, hinderless and stark? [1922, Clark Ashton Smith, Desire of Vastness:]
Adjectives inflected like plangent
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From Latin plangēns, present participle of plangō (“to beat; to lament”).