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lament - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To express grief for or about; mourn.
- intransitive verb To regret deeply; deplore.
- intransitive verb To grieve audibly; wail.
- intransitive verb To express sorrow or regret. synonym: grieve.
- noun A feeling or expression of grief; a lamentation.
- noun A song or poem expressing deep grief or mourning.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To express sorrow; utter words or sounds of grief; mourn audibly; wail.
- To show great sorrow or regret; repine; chafe; grieve.
- Synonyms Lament, Mourn, Grieve; sorrow. Lament expresses always, at least figuratively, an external act. Mourn was originally and is still often the same, but does not now suggest anything audible. Grieve suggests more of a consuming effect upon the person sorrowing. See
affliction . - To bewail; mourn for; bemoan; deplore.
- To afflict; distress.
- noun An expression of grief or sorrow; a sad complaint; a lamentation.
- noun A set form of lamentation or mourning; an elegy; a mourning song or ballad.
- noun The music for an elegy, or a tune intended to express or excite sorrowful emotion; a mournful air.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To mourn for; to bemoan; to bewail.
- noun Grief or sorrow expressed in complaints or cries; lamentation; a wailing; a moaning; a weeping.
- noun An elegy or mournful ballad, or the like.
- intransitive verb To express or feel sorrow; to weep or wail; to mourn.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An expression of
grief ,suffering , orsadness . - noun A
song expressing grief. - verb intransitive To express grief.
- verb transitive To
bewail .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a mournful poem; a lament for the dead
- noun a cry of sorrow and grief
- verb express grief verbally
- verb regret strongly
- noun a song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Middle English lementen, from Old French lamenter, from Latin lāmentārī, from lāmentum, lament.]
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
From French lamenter, from Latin lāmentor ("I wail, weep"), from lāmenta ("wailings, laments, moanings"); with formative -mentum, from the root *la-, probably ultimately imitative. Also see latrare.
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Examples
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Further, to lament is to express dissatisfaction, to complain and to deplore.
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Further, to lament is to express dissatisfaction, to complain, to deplore.
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What we should lament is the fact that a Bad Story exists, not that characters or setting were stolen to make a Bad Story.
A Few More Last Words grrm 2010
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What you could lament is the lack of "alias" in Windows, which would obviate the need for the batch file.
FAST Is A Geeky Command-Line Database | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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David Leckrone's lament is that despite this success we have now abandoned this capability.
David Leckrone's Premature Judgement of ISS - NASA Watch 2009
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Even while some voices sing "Good Times - ain't we lucky we got 'em", others cry out in lament "Temporary lay-offs!"
So... just how bad is it? frankwu 2009
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As I covered her, I waited for remorse [Do not have regrets, for to live with lament is not to live].
Moon View Mountain Road Foster Trecost 2010
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David Copperfield's lament is given here with my further typographical highlights on the kinds of anaphoric returns and alphabetic reversals by which Gass is intrigued: From
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Perhaps I am feeling rather dense from the effects of sleepiness, but I must ask you to refer to a particular policy in [new] conservatism in Canada which you lament is inherently foreign to traditional conservatism.
George W Bush Cementing Legacy Of Displaced Priorities « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2008
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For women to rise up and become independent is not something you will find me in lament for.
Related Words
synonyms (56)
Words with the same meaning
- bawl
- bemoan
- bewail
- complain
- coronach
- cry
- deplore
- dirge
- discomfort
- dismay
- distress
- dolorous tirade
- elegize
- elegy
- epicedium
- give sorrow words
- grieve
- grieve for
- grieve over
- groan
- howl
- jeremiad
- keen
- knell
- lamentation
- moan
- moaning
- monody
- mourn
- mourning
- murmur
- mutter
- outcry
- pain
- plaint
- planctus
- regret
- repine
- scream
- sigh
- sing the blues
- sob
- sorrow
- threnody
- tirade
- ululation
- wail
- wail of woe
- wailing
- weep
- weep over
- weeping
- whimper
- whine
- yawp
- yowl
hypernyms (11)
Words that are more generic or abstract
same context (21)
Words that are found in similar contexts
forms (7)
Forms
relateds (4)
relateds
rhymes (68)
Words with the same terminal sound
- Bendt
- Brent
- Gent
- Ghent
- Kent
- Lent
- Tashkent
- Trent
- accent
- ascent
- assent
- augment
- bent
- brent
- cement
- cent
- circumvent
- consent
- content
- dement
- dent
- descent
- discontent
- dissent
- ent
- event
- extent
- fent
- ferment
- gent
- ident
- indent
- intent
- invent
- kent
- lent
- malcontent
- meant
- misrepresent
- misspent
- nonevent
- outspent
- overrepresent
- overspent
- pent
- percent
- present
- prevent
- reinvent
- relent
- rent
- repent
- represent
- resent
- scent
- segment
- sent
- spent
- stent
- supplement
- tent
- torment
- underrepresent
- underwent
- unspent
- vent
- went
- wente
PossibleUnderscore commented on the word lament
I'm pretty sure Michael Flatley had a positively divine dance under this title.
July 23, 2009