Dictionary Entry
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
- 1intransitive verb
To express or feel sorrow; to weep or wail; to mourn.
- 2transitive verb
To mourn for; to bemoan; to bewail.
- 3verb
Grief or sorrow expressed in complaints or cries; lamentation; a wailing; a moaning; a weeping.
- 4verb
An elegy or mournful ballad, or the like.
- 5noun
a mournful poem; a lament for the dead
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- 6noun
a song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person
- 7noun
a cry of sorrow and grief
"their pitiful laments could be heard throughout the ward"
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- 8verb
regret strongly
"I deplore this hostile action"
"we lamented the loss of benefits"
- 9verb
express grief verbally
"we lamented the death of the child"
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