lamentation
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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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 noun
the passionate and demonstrative activity of expressing grief
Types & categories
- activity hypernym
- expression hypernym
Related & opposite
- lament derivation
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 | lament |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | activity |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | expression |