MEANING
Deeply resonant or ringing, often with a plaintive quality.
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- plangent chord
- plangent voice
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A plangent chord lingered beneath the rafters.
Her plangent voice filled the empty auditorium.
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Primary category: literary. Forms: Comparative more plangent; superlative most plangent where gradation is meaningful. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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