lament
noun
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- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a cry of sorrow and grief
their pitiful laments could be heard throughout the ward
Types & categories
- complaint hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 2 verb
express grief verbally
we lamented the death of the child
Types & categories
- express emotion hypernym
Related & opposite
- lamentation derivation
- elegy derivation
- keen derivation
- dirge derivation
- lamentation derivation
- mourner derivation
- sorrow entails
Sense 3 noun
a song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- lament derivation
Sense 4 verb
regret strongly
I deplore this hostile action
Types & categories
- plain hypernym
Related & opposite
- mourner derivation
- deplorable derivation
Sense 5 noun
a mournful poem; a lament for the dead
Types & categories
- poem hypernym
Related & opposite
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | whimper |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | yawl |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | lament |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | complaint |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | lamentation |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | elegy |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | keen |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | dirge |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | lamentation |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | mourner |
| 2 | entails | Related & opposite | sorrow |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | express emotion |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | lament |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | song |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | keen |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | mourner |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | deplorable |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | plain |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | elegist |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | elegize |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | lament |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | poem |