Synonyms of bemoaning

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adjective

as in weeping

expressing or suggesting mourning

one parishioner who always seems to have a bemoaning expression on her face

Synonyms & Similar Words

• weeping
• mournful
• heartbroken
• funeral
• grieving
• wailing
• bitter
• lamentable
• aching
• sad
• sorry
• unhappy
• anguished
• melancholy
• woeful
• agonized
• regretful
• bewailing
• crying
• plaintive
• sorrowful
• deploring
• tearful
• depressed
• doleful
• lugubrious
• dolorous
• rueful
• somber
• plangent
• bleak
• funereal
• dark
• morbid
• pathetic
• dolesome
• miserable
• disconsolate
• groaning
• darkening
• dejected
• moaning
• despondent
• keening
• dispirited
• heartsick
• elegiac
• downcast
• inconsolable
• crestfallen
• suffering
• woebegone
• bleeding
• gloomy
• glum
• howling
• forlorn
• moody
• desolate
• brokenhearted
• careworn
• grey
• dismal
• elegiacal
• gray
• black
• piteous
• low
• downhearted
• wretched
• cheerless
• dirgelike
• yammering
• sullen
• pessimistic
• joyless
• sombre
• dreary
• bawling
• morose
• heartsore
• low-spirited
• comfortless
• saturnine
• triste

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• happy
• triumphant
• delighted
• joyful
• laughing
• smiling
• cheerful
• rejoicing
• cheery
• bright
• exulting
• glorying
• joyous
• merry
• encouraging
• blissful
• cheering
• jolly
• buoyant
• blithe
• optimistic
• hopeful
• mirthful
• lighthearted
• ecstatic
• giddy
• rapturous
• rhapsodic
• jocund
• euphoric
• heady
• blithesome
• elated
• rhapsodical
• exhilarated

bemoaning

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verb

present participle of bemoan

1

as in mourning

to feel or express sorrow for

bemoaned the death of his wife by writing a series of poignant letters addressed to her

Synonyms & Similar Words

• mourning
• lamenting
• bewailing
• regretting
• deploring
• wailing (for)
• grieving (for)
• moaning
• weeping
• sobbing
• hurting
• suffering
• crying (for)
• ruing
• keening
• blubbering
• elegizing
• bawling
• sorrowing
• bleeding
• agonizing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• delighting
• rejoicing (in)
• laughing
• smiling
• exulting (in)
• grinning
• cheering
• glorying (in)
• beaming
• joying

2

as in regretting

to feel sorry or dissatisfied about

a think piece bemoaning the coarsening of our society over the last several decades

Synonyms & Similar Words

• regretting
• lamenting
• repenting
• deploring
• ruing
• bewailing
• mourning
• grieving (for)
• aching (for)
• sorrowing (for)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• enjoying
• relishing
• savoring
• delighting (in)
• reveling (in)
• savouring
• revelling (in)