英语词汇“plangent”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

adj

Any sound described as plangent echoes in a loud and often mournful way. There may be certain sad songs with plangent choruses that make you cry every time you hear them.

The haunting peal of a church bell is plangent, and a poet's plangent, resonant tones when she reads her latest work might send chills down your spine. The adjective plangent isn't one you hear very often (it appears most frequently in a literary context), but it's good for capturing a specific sound that evokes an emotional response. Plangent originally meant "beating with a loud sound," from the Latin plangere, "to strike or beat."

WORD FAMILY

plangent: plangency, plangently

USAGE EXAMPLES

Death was everywhere, and that put life on canvas into a more plangent key.

New York Times(Oct 06, 2016)

At its best, it is memoiristic, sad, plangent, and puzzled.

The New Yorker(Sep 12, 2016)

What’s striking, reading this plangent eulogy for virilitas, is how much virility nevertheless remains at the center of male culture.

The New Yorker(Apr 14, 2016)

adj loud and resounding

plangent bells
the plangent minority

Syn

full

(of sound) having marked deepness and body

单词	plangent
释义	plangent (once / 46170 pages) adj Any sound described as plangent echoes in a loud and often mournful way. There may be certain sad songs with plangent choruses that make you cry every time you hear them. The haunting peal of a church bell is plangent, and a poet's plangent, resonant tones when she reads her latest work might send chills down your spine. The adjective plangent isn't one you hear very often (it appears most frequently in a literary context), but it's good for capturing a specific sound that evokes an emotional response. Plangent originally meant "beating with a loud sound," from the Latin plangere, "to strike or beat." WORD FAMILY plangent: plangency, plangently USAGE EXAMPLES Death was everywhere, and that put life on canvas into a more plangent key. New York Times(Oct 06, 2016) At its best, it is memoiristic, sad, plangent, and puzzled. The New Yorker(Sep 12, 2016) What’s striking, reading this plangent eulogy for virilitas, is how much virility nevertheless remains at the center of male culture. The New Yorker(Apr 14, 2016) adj loud and resounding plangent bells the plangent minority Syn full (of sound) having marked deepness and body
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