Uttal

    • IPA: /ˈplænd͡ʒənt/
Översättning
Adjektiv
1.klagande {en}
2.brusande
3.dånande

Definitioner

Adjektiv

  1. Having a loud, mournful sound.
  2. (rare) Beating, dashing, as waves.

Exempel

  • [S]how him a refined or powerful face, let him hear a plangent or a penetrating voice . . . and his mind was instantaneously awakened.
  • Since mid-day their plangent, disquieting cries had foretold its approach.
  • 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.
  • What central sea with plume-plucked midnight strewn,
  • Plangent to what enormous plenilune
  • That lifts in silence, hinderless and stark?

Böjningsformer

Komparativmore plangent
Superlativmost plangent