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.
- 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.
- 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.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To express or feel sorrow; to weep or wail; to mourn.
- 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.
- transitive verb To mourn for; to bemoan; to bewail.
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
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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.
PossibleUnderscore commented on the word lament
I'm pretty sure Michael Flatley had a positively divine dance under this title.
July 23, 2009