plangent

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Having a loud, mournful sound.
    — [S]how him a refined or powerful face, let him hear a plangent or a penetrating voice […] and his mind was instantaneously awakened.
  2. Beating, dashing, as waves. rare
    — What central sea with plume-plucked midnight strewn, Plangent to what enormous plenilune That lifts in silence, hinderless and stark?

词形变化

more plangent comparative most plangent superlative

词汇关系

相关词
plangency plangently

词源

From Latin plangēns, present participle of plangō (“to beat; to lament”).
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