lament
IPA: ɫʌmˈɛnt
noun
- An expression of grief, suffering, sadness or regret.
- A song expressing grief.
verb
- (intransitive) To express grief; to weep or wail; to mourn.
- (transitive) To express great sorrow or regret over; to bewail.
Examples of "lament" in Sentences
- He also has a divan in lamentation.
- Little time was spent in lamentation.
- Others lament the loss of the wetlands.
- The death of the old man is lamentable.
- Lamentations was certified Gold in Canada.
- For their lamentation, there was none to share.
- Pleasant in the beginnings, but lamentable in the end.
- It was an amusement and a lamentable way to promote myself.
- But their lamentable ignorance is no reason to change the page.
- A lamentable limitation of the tool will not be not excused anymore.
- Further, to lament is to express dissatisfaction, to complain, to deplore.
- Further, to lament is to express dissatisfaction, to complain and to deplore.
- David Leckrone's lament is that despite this success we have now abandoned this capability.
- For women to rise up and become independent is not something you will find me in lament for.
- As I covered her, I waited for remorse [Do not have regrets, for to live with lament is not to live].
- What you could lament is the lack of "alias" in Windows, which would obviate the need for the batch file.
- Even while some voices sing "Good Times - ain't we lucky we got 'em", others cry out in lament "Temporary lay-offs!"
- What we should lament is the fact that a Bad Story exists, not that characters or setting were stolen to make a Bad Story.
- David Copperfield's lament is given here with my further typographical highlights on the kinds of anaphoric returns and alphabetic reversals by which Gass is intrigued: From
- Perhaps I am feeling rather dense from the effects of sleepiness, but I must ask you to refer to a particular policy in [new] conservatism in Canada which you lament is inherently foreign to traditional conservatism.