Plangent

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: plan=gent

CIDE DICTIONARY

Plangent, a. [L. plangens, -entis, fr. plangere to beat. See Plaint.].

 Beating; dashing, as a wave.  H. Taylor.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

Plangent

Jeremianic, aggrieved, anguished, booming, careworn, complaining, consonant, deafening, doleful, dolorous, dumb with grief, ear-piercing, ear-rending, ear-splitting, earthshaking, faultfinding, forte, fortissimo, fretful, full, grief-stricken, griefful, grieved, grievous, howling, in grief, lamentable, lamentive, loud, loud-sounding, loudish, lugubrious, mellow, moanful, mournful, orotund, pealing, peevish, petulant, piercing, plaintive, plunged in grief, puling, pulsing, querulous, resonant, resonating, resounding, rich, ringing, rolling, rotund, round, rueful, sonorous, sorrowed, sorrowful, sorrowing, stentoraphonic, stentorian, stentorious, tearful, throbbing, thunderous, tonitruant, tonitruous, ululant, vibrant, vibrating, wailful, whimpering, whining, whiny, window-rattling, woeful