lament
pronunciation
How to pronounce lament in British English:
UK [ləˈment]
How to pronounce lament in American English:
US [ləˈment]
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- Noun:
- a cry of sorrow and grief
- a song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person
- a mournful poem; a lament for the dead
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- Verb:
- express grief verbally
- regret strongly
Word Origin
- lament (v.)
- mid-15c., back-formation from lamentation or else from Middle French lamenter "to moan, bewail" (14c.) and directly from Latin lamentari, from lamentum (see lamentation). Related: Lamented; lamenting.
- lament (n.)
- 1590s, from Middle French lament and directly from Latin lamentum (see lamentation).
Antonym
Example
- 1. Many brazilians lament the contrast between these two worlds .
- 2. Still other people lament that they can 't meditate because they are always thinking .
- 3. If the world would end today , I would totally lament .
- 4. The real equation shows that the regimes they lament were the primary source of instability .
- 5. The most common lament in this collection is from people who worked at the same company all their lives and now realize how boring they must seem .