lament
哀叹,悲叹,感叹,悲哀
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Definitions
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- : to feel or express sorrow or regret for: to lament his absence.
- : to mourn for or over.
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- : to feel, show, or express grief, sorrow, or regret.
- : to mourn deeply.
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- : an expression of grief or sorrow.
- : a formal expression of sorrow or mourning, especially in verse or song; an elegy or dirge.
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
It’s a true elegy, a lament for the dead, a yearning for the lost.
After nearly a year of working from home, the difficulty in finding ways to connect with peers and lament workplace issues is getting to some creatives.
When things inevitably begin to get heavy, there are no emotional outbursts, no histrionic laments, no ugly crying.
All we have is a lament for another child our city has lost.
Over the years, his encyclopedic knowledge of the decline—or, more charitably, the evolution—of American industry has crystallized into a kind of lament about the shifting character of the US economy.
While many today lament that iPhones and iPads have become almost extra limbs, for Hockney they were a breakthrough for his art.
But by and large, McCain and Kaine didn't so much disagree as lament different topics.
So go the lyrics of the iconic 1970 Joni Mitchell lament, “Big Yellow Taxi.”
And yet the voices we hear over the footage of school closures lament the potential loss of … football.
But even if you blame the parties equally, or blame the Democrats more, you should lament this: It harms the United States.
And her gates shall lament and mourn, and she shall sit desolate on the ground.
Ethel hesitated a little, and presently answered, "I don't think it can be right to for our own sakes so much, is it?"