Entry Word: lament

Function: noun

Meaning: 1 a crying out in grief <the national lament that was heard when President Kennedy was assassinated>

Synonyms groan, howl, keen, lamentation, moan, plaint, wail

Related Words grieving, mourning, weeping; regret; complaint, outcry, protest

Near Antonyms cheering, laughing, smiling

Antonyms exultation, rejoicing

2 a composition expressing oneʼs grief over a loss <a poem that is her lament for her late grandmother>

Synonyms dirge, elegy, requiem, threnody

Related Words taps

Near Antonyms encomium, eulogy, paean, panegyric