[S]how him a refined or powerful face, let him hear a plangent or a penetrating voice […] and his mind was instantaneously awakened.
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Plangent
//ˈplænd͡ʒənt//
Synonyms for "plangent" (79 found)
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2 entriesTranslations
28 translations across 13 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- ечащ adj (having a loud mournful sound)
- кънтящ adj (having a loud mournful sound)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 淒厲 /凄厉 adj (having a loud mournful sound)
Dutch
3 entries- huilend adj (having a loud mournful sound)
- klaaglijk adj (having a loud mournful sound)
- luidklagend adj (having a loud mournful sound)
Finnish
1 entries- moikaava adj (having a loud mournful sound)
French
1 entries- retentissant adj (having a loud mournful sound)
German
1 entries- klagend adj (having a loud mournful sound)
Italian
4 entries- fragoroso adj (having a loud mournful sound)
- lamentoso adj (having a loud mournful sound)
- risonante adj (having a loud mournful sound)
- rumoroso adj (having a loud mournful sound)
Japanese
1 entries- 哀調を帯びる adj (having a loud mournful sound)
Korean
3 entries- 상차(傷嗟)하다 adj (having a loud mournful sound)
- 통탄(痛歎)하다 adj (having a loud mournful sound)
- 호천통곡(呼天痛哭)하다 adj (having a loud mournful sound)
Portuguese
1 entries- plangente adj (having a loud mournful sound)
Russian
1 entries- зауны́вный adj (having a loud mournful sound)
Spanish
4 entries- consternado adj (having a loud mournful sound)
- plañidero adj (having a loud mournful sound)
- quejumbroso adj (having a loud mournful sound)
- triste adj (having a loud mournful sound)
Swedish
4 entries- brusande adj (having a loud mournful sound)
- dånande adj (having a loud mournful sound)
- genljudande adj (having a loud mournful sound)
- klagande adj (having a loud mournful sound)
Sample sentences
5 total sentences available.
Since mid-day their plangent, disquieting cries had foretold its approach.
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[…] who then marched together into eternal glory in plangent ceremonies.
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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.
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