plangent
Deep and lamenting
Plangent describes sounds that are loud and resonant, often with a mournful or melancholy quality—the kind of deep, reverberating tone that seems to hang in the air: the plangent toll of church bells, a plangent cello passage.
The word is literary and appears mainly in descriptions of music, waves, or voices carrying emotional weight.
Filled with grief
- dolefulExpressing deep sorrow
- lugubriousExaggeratedly mournful in manner
- melancholicInclined toward reflective sorrow
- elegiacSorrowfully commemorative
lamenting · keening · dirge · elegy · requiem · lamentation · grief · wistful
Continuing to echo
- sonorousDeep and full-toned
- resoundingEchoing loudly and fully
- deepFar from surface
- richHaving much of something
full-bodied · vibrant · booming · thunderous · ringing · echoing · tolling · pealing
Tending to summon memories
- lingeringRemaining beyond expected duration
- memorableWorth holding onto
- affectingEmotionally moving
- piercingPenetrating or very sharp
penetrating · stirring · moving · poignant · atmospheric · unforgettable · bittersweet · nostalgic
Fee for passage
gong · tintinnabulation · carillon · bell · clangor · bong · tocsin · vespers
Echoing loudly and fully
- thunderingProducing deep, loud sound
- boomingExperiencing rapid growth
- crashingColliding with force
- roaringMaking prolonged loud noise
powerful · stentorian · clamorous · strident · piercing · fortissimo · tumultuous · clangorous
sorrowful
Filled with grief
- dolefulExpressing deep sorrow
- lugubriousExaggeratedly mournful in manner
- melancholicInclined toward reflective sorrow
elegiac · lamenting · keening · dirge · elegy · requiem · lamentation · grief · wistful · pensive
reverberating
Continuing to echo
- sonorousDeep and full-toned
- resoundingEchoing loudly and fully
- deepFar from surface
rich · full-bodied · vibrant · booming · thunderous · ringing · echoing · tolling · pealing · resonance
evocative
Tending to summon memories
piercing · penetrating · stirring · moving · poignant · atmospheric · unforgettable · bittersweet · nostalgic · wistful
toll
Fee for passage
clang · gong · tintinnabulation · carillon · bell · clangor · bong · tocsin · vespers · campanile
resounding
Echoing loudly and fully
- thunderingProducing deep, loud sound
- boomingExperiencing rapid growth
- crashingColliding with force
roaring · powerful · stentorian · clamorous · strident · piercing · fortissimo · tumultuous · clangorous · deafening
complain, complaint, complaining, lament, plaintive, plaintiff, plaintively, plaintiveness