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plangent
adjective as in resonant
Weak matches
- beating
- booming
- clangorous
- consonant
- deep
- deep-toned
- earsplitting
- echoing
- electrifying
- enhanced
- full
- heightened
- intensified
- loud
- mellow
- noisy
- orotund
- powerful
- profound
- pulsating
- pulsing
- resounding
- reverberant
- reverberating
- rich
- ringing
- roaring
- rotund
- round
- sonorant
- sonorous
- stentorian
- strident
- thrilling
- throbbing
- thundering
- thunderous
- vibrant
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But they are also plangently individual, yearning to harmonize their fates with their true selves.
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In an era of plangent indie rock, they were the studied, intricate eccentrics.
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Adjuah sings in a keening, plangent tone, but at one point he pauses to offer a spoken invitation: “Listen to the wind,” he says.
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A clear highlight was “Amelia,” a plangent, airy meditation on freedom and flight.
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She shushed her daughters, sloshing in nearby mud, so she could tease out the source of some plangent rumble.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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