Lament meaning

Verb: lament

Pronunciation: (lu’ment)

Lament meaning:

1. Express grief verbally. Synonym: keen
2. Regret strongly. Synonyms: bemoan, bewail, deplore

Noun: lament

Pronunciation: (lu’ment)

Lament meaning:

1. A cry of sorrow and grief. Synonyms: lamentation, plaint, wail
2. A song of hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person. Synonyms: coronach, dirge, requiem, threnody
3. A mournful poem. Synonym: elegy

Quotations: Thomas Merton – In this age of crowds in which I have determined to be a solitary, perhaps the greatest sin would be to lament the presence of people on the threshold of my solitude.

Charles Caleb Colton – The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other.

Seán O’Casey – I have found life an enjoyable, enchanting, active, and sometime terrifying experience, and I’ve enjoyed it completely. A lament in one ear, maybe, but always a song in the other.

William Godwin – As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking.

Steven Wieting – What’s most important is that we’ve got demand and supply moving ahead fast enough that we’re absorbing and creating jobs month in and month out, that’s not something to lament.

Sample sentences:

1. There has never been an age that did not applaud the past and lament the present.
2. It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
3. I have often lamented that we cannot close our ears with as much ease as we can our eyes.
4. We lament that politics takes precedence while lives are being lost.
5. You lament the loss of any job.
6. People who are concerned about the environment often lament that there is nothing they can do to help wildlife.
7. I don’t know if Minnesota has anything to lament. It’s never bad to have high income. But high income does bring high taxes.
8. We lament, despite the efforts that were made 24 hours a day since this started, we have not been able to prevent this abominable homicide.
9. This has been a time of tears and a time of laughter, a time of celebration and a time of mourning, a time of storytelling and a time of lament.
10. We want to applaud and celebrate where steps forward have occurred, but criticize and lament where steps have not been taken.