“Plangent” (PLAN-junt) – from the Latin – means resounding loudly, especially with a plaintive sound.
Example (as used by Susann Cokal in a New York Times review of Girl in a Blue Dress by Gaynor Arnold): “… Gaynor Arnold has taken inspiration from [Charles] Dickens’s failed marriage, as seen through the eyes of his droopy, plangent, but remarkably good-hearted wife.”
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