All 8 Uses of
lament
in
Romeo and Juliet
- Why, is not this a lamentable thing...
Scene 2.4lamentable = sadstandard suffix: The suffix "-able" means able to be. This is the same pattern you see in words like breakable, understandable, and comfortable.
- Tybalt's death
Was woe enough, if it had ended there.
Or, if sour woe delights in fellowship
And needly will be rank'd with other griefs,
Why follow'd not, when she said "Tybalt's dead,"
"Thy father", or "thy mother", nay, or both,
Which modern lamentations might have moved?
Scene 3.2lamentations = expressions of grief
- Beg pardon of the prince, and call thee back
With twenty hundred thousand times more joy
Than thou went'st forth in lamentation.
Scene 3.3lamentation = passionate expression of grief
- O lamentable day!
Scene 4.5lamentable = sadstandard suffix: The suffix "-able" means able to be. This is the same pattern you see in words like breakable, understandable, and comfortable.
- O lamentable day!
Scene 4.5
- Most lamentable day, most woeful day
That ever, ever, I did yet behold!
Scene 4.5 *
- For though fond nature bids us all lament,
Yet nature's tears are reason's merriment.
Scene 4.5lament = grieve
- Ah, what an unkind hour
Is guilty of this lamentable chance!
Scene 5.3lamentable = sadstandard suffix: The suffix "-able" means able to be. This is the same pattern you see in words like breakable, understandable, and comfortable.
Definition:
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(lament) to express grief or regret