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Definition
to express grief or regretAlthough lament typically refers to a feeling or simple vocal expression, it can refer to a vocal expression as complex as a sad song or poem. It can even refer to sad, but non-vocal music — as when Tennessee Williams references background music in A Streetcar Named Desire.
- She lamented the loss.
lamented = expressed grief about
- We lamented our sad circumstances.
- She lamented, saying "Woe is me!"
- My parents were lamenting that they hadn't seen Willow and Henry and the baby in months.Gayle Forman -- If I Stay
- Their champion's fate with pity they lament,Virgil -- The Aeneid
- let me lament, with tearsWilliam Shakespeare -- Antony and Cleopatra
- ...and down the wind came the voices of the people of Esgaroth lamenting their lost town and goods and ruined houses.J.R.R. Tolkien -- The Hobbit
- Gilgamesh lamented; seven days and seven nights he wept for Enkidu,Unknown -- The Epic of Gilgamesh
- He was feeling sorry for himself, and lamenting the fact that his life could have changed so suddenly and so drastically.Paulo Coelho -- The Alchemist
- Most lamentable day, most woeful day
That ever, ever, I did yet behold!William Shakespeare -- Romeo and Juliet - ...then the lamentation rose out of him, loud and sustained as the conch.William Golding -- Lord of the Flies
- High above us in the darkness a solitary mocker poured out his repertoire in blissful unawareness of whose tree he sat in, plunging from the shrill kee, kee of the sunflower bird to the irascible qua-ack of a bluejay, to the sad lament of Poor Will, Poor Will, Poor Will.Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird
- SECOND MESSENGER Hearing the loud lament above her son With her own hand she stabbed herself to the heart.Sophocles -- Antigone
- If you see bees loafing and lamenting, you can bet their queen is dead.Sue Monk Kidd -- The Secret Life of Bees
- The river sang with a voice of suffering, longingly it sang, longingly, it flowed towards its goal, lamentingly its voice sang.Hermann Hesse -- Siddhartha
- "I have bought the mansion of a love, but not possess'd it" was his lament.Olive Ann Burns -- Cold Sassy Tree
- He says that this seems to be a poem about England but it is a lament for the poet's native land, our own native land, Ireland.Frank McCourt -- Angela's Ashes
- A cry of lamentation went up.George Orwell -- Animal Farm
- She, being the nearest woman relative, raised a formal lament for the dead of the family.John Steinbeck -- The Pearl
- I was no longer capable of lamentation.Elie Wiesel -- Night
lamented = expressed grief about
lamented = expressed grief
lamenting = regretting
lament = grieve (express grief or sadness)
lament = expressing grief or regret
lamenting = expressing regret for
lamented = expressed grief and sorrow passionately
lamenting = expressing grief
lamentable = sad
(Editor's note: The suffix "-able" means able to be. This is the same pattern you see in words like breakable, understandable, and comfortable.)
lamentation = sorrowful cry
(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)
lament = expression of grief
lament = expressing grief or regret
lamenting = expressing grief or regret
lamentingly = in a manner that expresses grief or regret
lament = expressed grief or regret
lament = sad poem
lamentation = passionate grief or sorrow
(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)
lament = verbal expression of grief
lamentation = passionate expression of grief or sorrow
(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)