Synonyms of bemoaning

bemoaning 1 of 2

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

2 of 2

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

Two Columbia University Apartheid Divest activists, bemoaning their opposition, coauthored a June 2024 opinion article signaling overlap with the police abolition movement. — Hudson Crozier, The Washington Examiner, 9 Nov. 2026

His disparaging comments bemoaning the lack of financial support of UConn football by the state, UConn and Pratt & Whitney were totally unwarranted. — Letters To The Editor, Hartford Courant, 29 Oct. 2026

The reviews were blistering, with many critics bemoaning the fact that Fincher had passed on directing the film, leaving it to Sorkin to slide behind the camera. — Brent Lang, IndieWire, 11 Oct. 2026

In the first season, Woody Harrelson’s character is talking to his father-in-law, who is bemoaning the decline of culture as represented by the latest generation of kids. — Jonathan Jones, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2026

Head coach Eli Drinkwitz was pleased with most of the starters’ performance, but spent his news conference, in part, bemoaning simple mistakes by the reserves. — Pj Green september 4, Kansas City Star, 4 Sep. 2026

Much has rightly been made of head coach Mike Vrabel bemoaning the Patriots’ lack of depth following their preseason win over the Eagles. — Doug Kyed, Boston Herald, 27 Aug. 2026

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