Plangent
Plangent adjective - Expressing or suggesting mourning.
Usage example: a plangent, haunting song about a long-ago love
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- melancholy and plangent
- melancholy and piteous
- woeful and plangent
- woeful and piteous
- sad and plangent
- sad and piteous
- lamentable and plangent
- lamentable and piteous
- sorrowful and plangent
- sorrowful and piteous
- dolorous and plangent
- dolorous and piteous
- lugubrious and plangent
- lugubrious and piteous
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Piteous and Plangent. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 14, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/plangent/piteous
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Piteous or Plangent. 2016. Accessed August 14, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/plangent/piteous.
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