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1
expressing or suggesting mourning
- a plangent, haunting song about a long-ago love
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- dirgelike,
- elegiac
- (also elegiacal),
- melancholy
- dejected,
- depressed,
- despondent,
- disconsolate,
- dispirited,
- downcast,
- downhearted,
- heartsick,
- heartsore,
- inconsolable,
- tearful
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- ecstatic,
- elated,
- euphoric,
- exhilarated,
- giddy,
- heady,
- rapturous,
- rhapsodic
- (also rhapsodical)
2
marked by a high volume of sound
- plangent organ music filled the church
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3
marked by conspicuously full and rich sounds or tones
- the strong, plangent tones of a Louis Armstrong trumpet solo
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“Plangent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/plangent. Accessed 7 Dec. 2021.
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The first known use of plangent was in 1666
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