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
• sad
• aching
• sorry
• unhappy
• anguished
• woeful
• melancholy
• agonized
• regretful
• bewailing
• plaintive
• crying
• sorrowful
• deploring
• tearful
• doleful
• depressed
• lugubrious
• dolorous
• rueful
• somber
• plangent
• bleak
• funereal
• dark
• morbid
• pathetic
• dolesome
• miserable
• disconsolate
• groaning
• dejected
• darkening
• moaning
• despondent
• dispirited
• keening
• heartsick
• elegiac
• downcast
• inconsolable
• crestfallen
• suffering
• woebegone
• gloomy
• bleeding
• glum
• howling
• forlorn
• moody
• desolate
• brokenhearted
• careworn
• dismal
• gray
• black
• piteous
• downhearted
• wretched
• cheerless
• low
• dirgelike
• yammering
• sullen
• pessimistic
• joyless
• 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
• jocund
• rhapsodic
• euphoric
• heady
• blithesome
• elated
• 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
• savoring
• relishing
• delighting (in)
• reveling (in)

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of bemoaning

Verb

Perhaps ironically, Lütke’s tweetstorm began as a response to Jordan Grimes bemoaning the current crisis conditions in the housing market. — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 27 July 2026

Others questioned its content, bemoaning its failure to forefront local services, the World Service, and online offerings. — Jake Kanter, Deadline, 21 July 2026

In May 1972, Saijo sent a copy of the book to Snyder, bemoaning the editors’ heavy hand. — Literary Hub, 29 June 2026

Maher opened the conversation by thanking Vance for coming on the show and bemoaning that Democratic politicians won't do so. — Brendan Morrow, USA Today, 28 June 2026

Lord knows how many years of a college football fan’s life have been spent bemoaning whatever system was in place that year to determine the national champion. — Stewart Mandel, New York Times, 23 June 2026

This was after central Europeans were already loudly bemoaning the advance of muskrats into the vast Danube watershed. — Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 22 June 2026

The buildings had become a problem property for Boise State University, according to previous Statesman reporting, with students bemoaning floods, discolored water, mold and asbestos in apartments. — Darin Oswald, Idaho Statesman, 13 Mar. 2026

The five teams scatter to their work stations, bemoaning the 92-degree heat (no one complains about the noisy vroom vroom of the racecar driving around, which surprises me), and get to work. — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 3 Mar. 2026