Lamentation

English

Noun

Lamentation (plural Lamentations)

1. The act of lamenting.
2. A sorrowful cry; a lament.
3. Specifically, mourning.
4. lamentatio, (part of) a liturgical Bible text (from the book of Job) and its musical settings, usually in the plural; hence, any dirge
5. A group of swans.

Adjectives for Lamentation

piteous; moderate; importunate; frantic; grand; purposeless; loud; diabolical; silent; sublime; quavering; burlesque.

Verbs for Lamentation

deplore—; fill with—; forego—; forestall—; regret—; restrain—; staunch—; stifle—; utter—; wail in—; —arises; — ceases; —encompasses; —haunts; —increases; —rends the air; —resounds; — weakens.

Related terms

lament; lamentable; lamented

Thesaurus

agony, anguish, bitterness, bleakness, care, carking care, cheerlessness, comfortlessness, crying, depression, discomfort, dismalness, distress, distressfulness, dreariness, grief, grieving, grievousness, heartfelt grief, heartgrief, joylessness, lamentability, lamenting, languishment, misery, moaning, mournfulness, mourning, pain, painfulness, pathos, pining, pitiability, pitiableness, pitifulness, poignancy, prostration, regrettableness, sadness, sharpness, sobbing, sorrow, sorrowfulness, sorrowing, wailing, weeping, woe, woebegoneness, woefulness

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA: /ˌlæm.ɛnˈteɪ.ʃən/, /ˌlæm.ɪnˈteɪ.ʃən/
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən