Lament

Definitions: Lament

Lament

Noun

1. A cry of sorrow and grief; "their pitiful laments could be heard throughout the ward".

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

3. A mournful poem; a lament for the dead.

Verb

1. Express grief verbally.

2. Regret strongly.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "lament" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Dream Interpretation

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Lament

Condolence

Verb: condole with, console, sympathize express pity, testify pity; afford consolation, supply consolation; lament; with; express sympathy for; feel grief in common with, feel sorrow in common with; share one's sorrow.

Disapprobation

Verb: disapprove; dislike; lament; object to, take exception to; be scandalized at, think ill of; view with disfavor, view with dark eyes, view with jaundiced eyes; nil admirari, disvalue; improbate.

Discontent

Take in bad part, take ill; fret, chafe, make a piece of work; grumble, croak; lament.

Lamentation

Verb: lament, mourn, deplore, grieve, weep over; bewail, bemoan; condole with; fret; (suffer); wear mourning, go into mourning, put on mourning; wear the willow, wear sackcloth and ashes; infandum renovare dolorem; (regret); give sorrow words.

Noun: lament, lamentation; wail, complaint, plaint, murmur, mutter, grumble, groan, moan, whine, whimper, sob, sigh, suspiration, heaving, deep sigh.

Pain

Grieve; mourn; (lament); yearn, repine, pine, droop, languish, sink; give way; despair; break one's heart; weigh upon the heart; (inflict pain).

Crosswords: Lament

A lament for Gandalf (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring; writing credit: Frances Walsh)

Sometimes, he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy - the sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. My childhood was typical: summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. (Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery; writing credit: Mike Myers.)

Michelle, I don't regret this, but I both rue and lament this. (Futurama; writing credit: Lance Smith; Carl Colpaert)

Look back and lament ("Nights In White Satin"; performing artist: The Moody Blues)

The Indian's Lament (1917)

Lament (2002)

A Fisherman's Lament (2000)

Lament nad Beogradom (1981)

Stage Diver's Lament in 3/4 Time (performing artist: John Black)

Hippies Lament (performing artist: Wally Pleasant)

Scorpion Lament, The (performing artist: The Roches)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• A Caddie's Lament & Other Thoughts from the Bunker (reference)

• Lament for the Death of a Bullfighter, and Other Poems in the Original Spanish (reference)

• King Orphius ; Sir Colling ; The brother's lament ; [and] Litel Musgray : poems from Scottish Manuscripts of c. 1586 and c. 1630 lately discovered (reference)

• Lament of the cracker cowboy : rhymes and reflections from the Florida cattle country (reference)

• Lament for a Lady Laird: A Penny Spring and Sir Toby Glendower Mystery (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Loco Gringo's Lament (reference)

• Pe�i: Albanian Lament (reference)

• Drunkard's Lament (reference)

• Al S'fod (Do Not Lament): Hebrew and Jewish Instrumental and Vocal Works (reference)

• The Orphan's Lament (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

When once it had been read, there was no doing any thing, but lament and exclaim.

Oh! do not lament, you have now the portion of the elect.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "lament": lament for ♦ lament over ♦ mourn lament ♦ song of lament. Additional references.

Albanian

vajtoj (bemoan, bewail, deplore, howl, mourn, wail), vajtim (howl, lamentation, mourning, wail), vaj (alas, bewailing, coronach, cry, dope, fat, lachrymation, lamentation, oil, seed oil, whine), qarje (cavil, complaint, cry, grumble, kick, mourning, plaint, snivel), qaj (bawl, bewail, cry, deplore, mourn, rain, weep, whimper), pikëllohem (be afflicted, mourn), keqardhje (compassion, compunction, pity, regret, remorse, repentance, rue, Ruth, sympathy), dëshpërohem (despair, despond). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مرثاة (elegy), ‏نواح, ‏نوح (bemoan, bewail, moan, wail), ‏نحب (blubber, wail), ‏ندب (bewail, cicatrize, delegation, mourn, mourn lament, scar, wail, weep), ‏إغنية مأسوية. (various references)

Basque

sentitu (lament to, regret to). (various references)

Bulgarian 

ридая (sob, wail, weep), ридание (lamentation, mourning, plaint, sob, wail), тъгувам (be melancholic, mourn, sorrow, yearn), тъжна песен, тъжа, вопъл (lamentation, plaint, wail), оплакване (complaint, grumble, jeremiad, kick, lamentation, moan, mourning, plaint, sorrow, ululation, wail), оплаквам се (bitch, complain, crab, growl, grumble, moan, quarrel, report, squeal, tick), оплаквам (bemoan, bewail, mourn, rinse, swill, wail, weep), жалея (grieve, mourn), жалба (complaint, lamentation, litigation, moan, petition, plaint, plea, supplication), елегия (elegy), погребална песен (coronach, dirge, monody, requiem, threnode, threnody), плача (blubber, complain, cry, pipe, sob, weep), плач (boohoo, cry, crying, lamentation, mourning, plaint, tears, weep, weeping). (various references)

Chinese 

感慨 (with a tinge of emotion or regret), 悲鳴 (utter sad calls), 悲嘆 (sigh mournfully), 悼 (mourn), �"�辭 , �"�悼 (lamented, lamenting, Mourn, Mourned, Mourning), �"�嘆 (bemoan, bewail). (various references)

Czech

lamentovat, nářek (wail), hořekování (lamentation, whine), elegie (elegy), bìdovat (moan, wail, whine), žalozpìv (dirge), žaloba (accusation, action, plaint, prosecution, suit). (various references)

Dutch

weeklagen (wail), steen en been klagen (wail). (various references)

Esperanto

lamenti (wail). (various references)

Faeroese

vena seg (groan, moan, wail). (various references)

Farsi 

تاسف خوردن , سوگواری کردن (Mourn), سوگواری (Jeremiad), زاریدن , ضجه وزاری کردن . (various references)

Finnish

valitella (wail). (various references)

French

lamenter, lamentation (lamentation). (various references)

German

lamentieren (complain, moan, wail), klage (action, application, charge, claim, complaint, grievance, lamentation, law suit, lawsuit, legal action, moan, particulars of claim, petition, plaint, proceeding, statement of claim, suit), jammern (bellyache, groan, lamentation, moan, squeal, to lament, wail, wailing, whine, yammer), beklagen (bemoan, bewail, complain, mourn, to bewail). (various references)

Greek 

θρηνώ (bemoan, bewail, deplore, grieve, moan, mourn, rue, sorrow, wail, weep). (various references)

Hebrew 

ילל�" (howl, ululation, wailing, whine, yowl), לקו� ן (bemoan, dirge, moan, mourn, wail), לזעוק (cry, outcry, shout, wail), לאבול (languish, mourn, perish, wither), לא� ות (bewail, mourn), ל�"תאבל (grieve, mourn, sorrow, wail, wear the willow), ל�"א� ח (groan, heave a sigh, moan, mourn, sigh), ל�"ספי�" (bewail, eulogize, mourn, wail), ל�"אוב (be sad, become faint, grieve, languish, pine), לבכות (bewail, blubber, cry, deplore, howl, mourn, snivel, weep), לספו�" (mourn), קי� �" (dirge, elegy, lamentation, plaint, threnody). (various references)

Hungarian

panasz (beef, complaint, discontent, flak, grievance, kick, plaint), sirám (complaint, jeremiad, plaint), lamentáció (jeremiad). (various references)

Indonesian

ratapan, menyabak, mengaduh (groan, moan, wail, whine). (various references)

Italian

lamento (groan, lamentation, moan, wail, whine), lamentarsi (bellyache, bemoan, bewail, complain, grieve, groan, grumble, howl, moan, mourn, protest, squawk, wail, whine), lamentare (bewail, complain, complain about, deplore, groan, moan, regret), lagnarsi (complain, moan, repine), lagna, rimpiangere (regret), pianto (cry, crying, lamented, tears, weeping). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

�"�悼 (condolence, regret, sorrow, sympathy). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

あいか (dirge, elegy, sad song), あいとう (condolence, regret, sorrow, sympathy). (various references)

Korean 

� 도하십시�" (grieve). (various references)

Manx

keayney (cry, crying, deplore, greet, keening, lamentation, lamenting, mourn, mourning, wail, wailing, weep, weeping, weeping; keen-minded), goaill er (fret, fuss, undertake, undertake promise), dobberan (bewail, deplore, lamentation, mourn, sob story). (various references)

Norwegian

klagesang, klage (complain), jamre, beklage (deplore). (various references)

Occitan

regantar (regret). (various references)

Pig Latin

amentlay.(various references)

Portuguese

lastimar-se (snivel, whine), lastimar (deplore, have compassion on, it's a pity, moan, pity, regret, rue), lamento (complaint, dole, howl, lamia, moan, regret, wail, yawl), lamentar‐se (complain, wail), lamentar (bemoan, bewail, beweep, commiserate, deplore, Grout, keen on, moan, mourn, pity, plain, regret, rue, weep), lamentação (groan, grouse, jeremiad, lamentation, moan, plaint, wail), queixar‐se (complain, wail), queixa (bill, clamor, clamour, complaint, expostulation, faultfinding, grievance, jericho, kick, moan, plaintiff, protest, railing, remonstrance), fraqueza (atony, feed, fragmemt, frailty, impotence, impotency, inanity, infirmity, instal, languorous, limy, weakness), elegia (elegy, element), deplorar (deplore, mourner, regret, rue), canto triste. (various references)

Romanian

lamentare (lamentation), lamentaţie (lamentation), lamenta (wail), vãitat (lamentation), tânguire (complaint, lamentation, wailing), se tângui (cant), se lamenta, regreta (regret, repent, rue), plânge (complain, cry, grieve, hanker, laugh on the wrong side of one's mouth, mourn, pipe, wail, weep), jeli (bemoan, bewail, groan, mourn, mourn for, wail), elegie (dirge, elegiac, elegy, lamentation, threnody), deplora (deplore), deplânge (bemoan, bewail, deplore, lament over, sigh over), bocet (dirge, groans, keen, lamentation, threnody, wail, wailing). (various references)

Russian 

утверждение (affirmance, affirmation, allegation, assertion, asseveration, averment, claim, maintenance, predicate, predication, proposition, ratification, testimony), горестное стенание, оплакивать (bemoan, bewail, deplore, mourn, weep), жаловаться (beef, bitch, complain, kick, natter, squawk), жалоба (beef, claim, complaint, complaints, gravamen, grievance, moan, peeve, plaint, plea), ахать (wail). (various references)

Scottish

tuir (mourn, relate), guil (weep), caoin (dry, kind, mild, the exterior surface of cloth, weep). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

lelek (wailing), zapevati (start singing), oplakati (mourn), naricati (wail), naricanje (lamentation), kukati (complain, cuckoo, gripe, yammer), kukanje (lamentation), jadikovanje (lamentation, moaning, plaint, wail, wailing, weeping), žaliti (bewail, deplore, kick, mourn, regret, rue, spare). (various references)

Spanish

lamentarse (bewail, mourn, wail). (various references)

Swedish

klagan (complaint, lamentation, moaning, plaint, wailing), klaga (complain, crab, grumble, kick, squeal). (various references)

Thai

โศกเศร้า (lamented, lugubrious, sorrowful), บทกลอนหรือเพลงไว้อาลัยผู้ตาย, ทำให้โศกเศร้า, ความโศกเศร้าเสียใจ. (various references)

Turkish

yas tutmak (mourn, sorrow, wail), yas (mourning), matem (mourning, sorrow), inleme (groan, groaning, howling, moaning, wailing, whimper), dövünmek (beat one's chest), acı çekmek (be in pain, be pinched, sting, suffer), ağlama (cry, lachrymation, lamentation, wail, weep, weeping, whimper), ağıt yakmak (elegize upon, keen, wail), ağıt (coronach, dirge, elegiac, elegy, keening, lamentation, mourning, threnode, threnody, wailing). (various references)

Turkmen 

зygyrmak (bawl, cry out), ahmyr etmek (regret), ahmyr (regret). (various references)

Ukranian 

ридання (lachrymals, mourning, sob, wail, weep), горювати (grieve), елегія (elegy), плач (blubber, cry, lachrymation, weep, weeping), плакати (cry, shed tears, weep). (various references)

Vietnamese 

lời than van (jeremiad), lời rên rỉ b� i ca ai oán, b� i ca bi thảm. (various references)

Welsh

oernadu (howl, wail), marwnad (elegy), galaru (grieve, mourn), galarnadu (bewail), cwyno (bewail, complain, whine), cwynfan (complain), alaethu. (various references)

i-lu, i-si-i�, �ir. (various references)

congemuisti, conquerentes, gemas, gememus, gemens, gementes, gementium, gemere, gemescit, gemet, gemimus, gemis, gemitos, gemitu, gemitum, gemitus, gemunt, heiulabo, heiulabunt, heiulantes, heiulatu, inlamentatus, lamentabant, lamentabat, lamentari, lamentatrices, lamentavimus, lugeant, lugeat, lugeatis, lugebant, lugebas, lugebat, lugebit, lugebitis, lugebunt, lugens, lugent, lugente, lugentem, lugentes, lugenti, lugentibus, lugentium, lugere, lugeret, luges, lugete, lugetis, luxerunt, luxit, luxitque, maereat, maerebam, maerebunt, maerens, maerentem, maerentes, maerentibus, maerere, planctu, planctum, planctus, plora, plorabant, plorabat, plorabis, plorabit, plorabitis, plorabo, plorabunt, plorans, plorantem, plorantes, plorantibus, plorantis, plorare, ploraretis, ploras, plorat, plorate, ploratis, ploratorum, ploratu, ploratus, ploraveris, ploraverunt, ploravit, ploremus, ploret, ploretis, querella, querellae, querellam, querellas, querellosi, queror, questus. (various references)

begnornian. (various references)

caoinim. (various references)

regrete. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "lament": lamentable, lamentableness, lamentablenesses, lamentably, lamentation, lamentations, lamented, lamentedly, lamenter, lamenters, lamenting, laments. (additional references)

Words ending with "lament": filament, microfilament, monofilament, multifilament, myofilament. (additional references)

Words containing "lament": filamentary, filamentous, filaments, microfilaments, monofilaments, multifilaments, myofilaments, nonfilamentous, unlamented. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Lament" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: almen, Ament, amment, flament, ilament, Kliment, laament, ladent, laiment, lameat, Lamen, lamens, lamente, lamenti, lameot, lamet, lamin, lamint, lamnet, Lamonte, Lamot, lanen, Lannet, lantent, leanent, Learmont, lemen, lement, loheit, Lomet, loyment, lument, Pamment, Plamenatz. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: mantel, mantle, mental.

-1 letter: ament, laten, leant, leman, meant, menta, metal.

-2 letters: alme, amen, ante, elan, etna, lame, lane, late, lean, lent, male, malt, mane, mate, meal, mean, meat, melt, meta, name, neat, nema, tael, tale, tame, teal, team, tela.

-3 letters: ale, alt, ane, ant, ate, eat, elm, eta, lam, lat, lea, let, mae, man, mat, mel, men, met, nae, nam, net, tae, tam, tan, tea, tel, ten.

-4 letters: ae, al, am, an, at, el, em, en, et, la, ma, me, na, ne, ta.

+1 letter: ailment, aliment, lambent, laments, lomenta, mantels, mantled, mantles, mantlet, omental, telamon, teleman.

+2 letters: ailments, aliments, antimale, bailment, filament, gunmetal, hotelman, lamented, lamenter, laminate, ligament, manliest, mantelet, mantlets, maternal, melanist, melanite, mentally, mesnalty, metaling, methanol, nonmetal, smaltine, talesman, talesmen, tallymen, tegminal, terminal, tramline.

+3 letters: alignment, alimented, alinement, allotment, almandite, aluminate, animately, annulment, bailments, blastment, cattleman, cattlemen, culminate, demential, dentalium, dismantle, elemental, eliminate, emotional, emulating, emulation, enamelist, filaments, fulminate, gentleman, glutamine, gunmetals, implanted, implanter, intermale, lambently, lamenters, lamenting, laminated, laminates, letterman, ligaments, lineament, lunchmeat, mantelets, marlstone, melanists, melanites, melanitic, melanotic, melatonin, menstrual, mentalism, mentalist, mentality, mestranol, metalling, methanols, militance, mislearnt, montadale, mountable, multilane, nameplate, nonmental, nonmetals, patrolmen, penultima, placement, plantsmen, pulmonate, ravelment, reimplant, segmental, selectman, semitonal, smaltines, stableman, stablemen, tegmental, telamones, tenaculum, terminals, tillerman, trameling, tramlines, tremulant, untamable.

+4 letters: alightment, alignments, alimentary, alimenting, alinements, allotments, allurement, almandites, aluminates, ambivalent, analemmata, animatedly, annulments, antebellum, antifemale, assoilment, babblement, bafflement, battlement, blastments, cajolement, calumniate, catamenial, centesimal, centralism, colemanite, complacent, culminated, culminates, delaminate, dentaliums, derailment, dismantled, dismantles, documental, elementals, elementary, eliminated, eliminates, eliminator, embalmment, embattling, emulations, enamelists, enlacement, entailment, entodermal, fragmental, fulminated, fulminates, glutamines, habiliment, illuminate, immanently, impalement, implanters, inimitable, instalment, intermodal, intermural, intimately, judgmental, lamentable, lamentably, lamentedly, lemniscate, lentamente, lineaments, lobsterman, lunchmeats, malcontent, maleficent, malevolent, manifestly, manipulate, marlstones, martingale, maternally, melanistic, melanocyte, melanomata, melatonins, mentalisms, mentalists, mercantile, mesnalties, mestranols, metalising, metalizing, militances, militiamen, misplanted, mistakenly, monetarily, monovalent, montadales, monumental, motherland, multipaned, multirange, myelinated, nameplates, nematology, neutralism, nonthermal, ornamental, overmantel, parliament, pedimental, penultimas, placements, planimeter, protonemal, pulmonates, rabblement, ravelments, regimental, reimplants, resemblant, revealment, rudimental, semantical, signalment, solacement, streamline, tanglement, tenaculums, terminable, terminably, terminally, timberland, tourmaline, tramelling, trammeling, trampoline, trawlerman, trawlermen, treponemal, trigeminal, unlamented, unmanliest, vestmental, watermelon, womanliest.

+5 letters: abolishment, alightments, allurements, amblygonite, amenability, amylopectin, analemmatic, animalities, antielitism, antimissile, antirealism, apartmental, assoilments, babblements, bafflements, balletomane, battlements, cajolements, calumniated, calumniates, campanulate, centralisms, colemanites, concealment, condimental, congealment, contemplate, curtailment, declamation, decremental, delaminated, delaminates, demountable, derailments, detrimental, disablement, elementally, eliminating, elimination, eliminative, eliminators, embalmments, emotionally, emplacement, endometrial, enigmatical, enlacements, enlargement, enslavement, entailments, exclamation, excremental, externalism, fermentable, filamentary, filamentous, firmamental, fundamental, gentlemanly, gentlewoman, glutaminase, habiliments, hematoxylin, illuminated, illuminates, impalements, impatiently, implantable, inanimately, incremental, indomitable, inestimable, inestimably, installment, instalments, interfamily, intradermal, kinematical, kleptomania, lamentation, laminitises, lemniscates, ligamentous, lineamental, malcontents, maledicting, malediction, malefaction, malignities, maltreating, mandibulate, manipulated, manipulates, mantelpiece, mantelshelf, martingales, maternalism, matrilineal, mediastinal, mediational, melanoblast, melanocytes, meliorating, melioration, mentalistic, mentalities, mentholated, mentionable, metallizing, metanalyses, metanalysis, methylamine, methylating, methylation, metonymical, militancies, ministerial, misaltering, misrelating, molestation, momentarily, motherlands, multiagency, multimanned, multivalent, myofilament, nematicidal, nematocidal, neutralisms, nomenclator, nonmaterial, nonmetallic, nonmetrical, nontemporal, nonterminal, normalities, normatively, orientalism, ornamentals, overmantels, parliaments, paternalism, penultimate, permanently, phantomlike, planetarium, planimeters, planimetric, platemaking, preterminal, rabblements, realignment, reclamation, regimentals, reimplanted, replacement, retinaculum, revealments, sacramental, salinometer, segmentally, seminatural, semitonally, sempiternal, sentimental, signalments, sillimanite, solacements, stalemating, startlement, statesmanly, steelmaking, streamlined, streamliner, streamlines, subterminal, tanglements, testimonial, timberlands, tourmalines, trammelling, trampoliner, trampolines, transdermal, trigeminals, ultramarine, ultramodern, unemotional, unmatchable, untrammeled, watermelons.

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