Synonyms for lament
ləˈmɛntlament

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1. lamentverb

   Synonyms:
   bewail

2. lamentverb

   To express grief.

   Synonyms:
   bewail

3. lamentverb

   To bewail.

   Synonyms:
   bewail

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1. lament

   To mourn is to feel or express sadness or distress because of some loss, affliction, or misfortune; mourning is thought of as prolonged, grief or regret may be transient. One may grieve or mourn, regret, rue, or sorrow without a sound; he bemoans with suppressed and often inarticulate sounds of grief; he bewails with passionate utterance, whether of inarticulate cries or of spoken words. He laments in plaintive or pathetic words, as the prophet Jeremiah in his "Lamentations." One deplores with settled sorrow which may or may not find relief in words. One is made to rue an act by some misfortune resulting, or by some penalty or vengeance inflicted because of it. One regrets a slight misfortune or a hasty word; he sorrows over the death of a friend.

   Synonyms:
   bemoan, bewail, deplore, grieve, mourn, regret, rue, sorrow

   Antonyms:
   be joyful, exult, joy, make merry, rejoice, triumph

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1. lament

   Synonyms:
   deplore, mourn, bewail, regret, grieve for, bemoan, wail for

   Antonyms:
   welcome, hall

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1. lament, lamentation, plaint, wailnoun

   a cry of sorrow and grief

   "their pitiful laments could be heard throughout the ward"

   Synonyms:
   coronach, dirge, lamentation, wail, threnody, mourning, plaint, requiem, elegy

2. dirge, coronach, lament, requiem, threnodynoun

   a song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person

   Synonyms:
   coronach, dirge, lamentation, wail, threnody, plaint, requiem, elegy

3. elegy, lamentverb

   a mournful poem; a lament for the dead

   Synonyms:
   coronach, dirge, lamentation, wail, threnody, plaint, requiem, elegy

4. lament, keenverb

   express grief verbally

   "we lamented the death of the child"

   Synonyms:
   deplore, keen, bemoan, bewail

5. deplore, lament, bewail, bemoanverb

   regret strongly

   "I deplore this hostile action"; "we lamented the loss of benefits"

   Synonyms:
   deplore, bewail, keen, bemoan

Matched Categories

1. • Express Emotion

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1. lamentverb

   Synonyms:
   mourn, grieve, weep, wail, moan, complain

2. lamentverb

   Synonyms:
   bewail, deplore, bemoan, mourn

3. lamentnoun

   Synonyms:
   wailing, moaning, moan, lamentation, plaint, complaint

4. lamentnoun

   Synonyms:
   dirge, elegy, epicedium, mournful song, funeral song

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1. lamentverb

   Synonyms:
   bemoan, weep, wail, deplore, grieve, bewail, mourn

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1. List of paraphrases for "lament":

   deplore, regret, mourn

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How to use lament in a sentence?

1. Omar Khayyam:

   When morning silvers the dark firmament, Why shrills the bird of dawning his lament? It is to show in dawn?s bright looking-glass How of thy careless life a night is spent.

2. Lillian Eichler Watson:

   There has never been an age that did not applaud the past and lament the present.

3. Farris Wilks:

   We lament and mourn the great sin of our nation, the many millions of babies murdered, and we pray that you turn these people away from this evil.

4. Omar Khayyam:

   Lament not Fortune?s mutability, And seize her fickle favours ere they flee; If others never mourned departed bliss, How should a turn of Fortune come to thee?

5. Peter Medawar:

   Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in ... Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.