Why this word is great
PLANGENT — [Adjective] Having a loud, deep, and mournful sound, often with a sense of reverberation. From the Latin plangēns, present participle of plangō ("to strike, beat; to lament, bewail"), a root that binds the violence of impact to the articulation of grief. Unlike "sonorous," which suggests a full, impressive richness, or "resonant," which emphasizes a neutral, vibrating echo, "plangent" is sound saturated with loss. It is the damp, heavy toll of a cathedral bell across a rain-swept moor, the bowed cello string that seems to hold the ache of the wood itself, and the low cry of a foghorn bleeding into the mist—a vibration felt less in the ear than in the cavity of the chest, the acoustic ghost of a blow already struck.