lament

lament is a 6-letter English word with 9 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, verb, and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To express or feel sorrow; to weep or wail; to mourn. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 11 · 9 senses

Definitions

1. intransitive verb. To express or feel sorrow; to weep or wail; to mourn.
2. transitive verb. To mourn for; to bemoan; to bewail.
3. verb. Grief or sorrow expressed in complaints or cries; lamentation; a wailing; a moaning; a weeping.
4. verb. An elegy or mournful ballad, or the like.
5. noun. a mournful poem; a lament for the dead

   Synonyms: elegy

6. noun. a song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person

   Synonyms: coronach, dirge, requiem, threnody

7. noun. a cry of sorrow and grief

   "their pitiful laments could be heard throughout the ward"

   Synonyms: lamentation, plaint, wail

8. verb. regret strongly

   "I deplore this hostile action"

   "we lamented the loss of benefits"

   Synonyms: bemoan, bewail, deplore

9. verb. express grief verbally

   "we lamented the death of the child"

   Synonyms: keen

Synonyms

elegy, coronach, dirge, requiem, threnody, lamentation, plaint, wail, bemoan, bewail, deplore, keen

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in lament:

manlet, mantel, mantle, mental

Common word forms

laments, lamented, lamenter, lamentful, lamenting, lamentable

Words from these letters

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