Definitions for plangent

plangent plan·gent

Spelling: [plan-juh nt]
IPA: /ˈplæn dʒənt/

Plangent is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 230 anagrams from letters in plangent (aeglnnpt).

Definitions for plangent

adjective

  1. resounding loudly, especially with a plaintive sound, as a bell.

Origin of plangent

1815-25; Latin plangent- (stem of plangēns), present participle of plangere to beat, lament. See plain2, -

Examples for plangent

And now, a solemn and plangent token of Oxford's perpetuity, the first stroke of Great Tom sounded.

But I am not plangent—one must take the thick with the thin—and I have such possibilities of another and better sort before me.

It seemed as large as the shell of a cathedral, and for organ there was the plangent, echoing sound of sea waves.

That brisk April air seems somehow in key with the mood of the Avenue—hard, plangent, glittering, intensely material.

A song fours down from the skies, a plangent song of triumph from the Moon.

Klyda gasped aloud at the horror of the plangent din, and she spun about to locate its cause.

The plangent roar of the city was painful to his ears, which had always been attuned to the deep silences of forest and lake.

Then from a point in the south came that warning, plangent cry of the evil bird.

She was as far removed from the plangent reverie of Rousseau as from the savage truculence of Swift.

The plangent power and deep earnestness of the words were even more applicable now than then.

Word Value for plangent
Scrable

11

Words with friends

16

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