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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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

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

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bemoaning

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verb

present participle of bemoan

1

as in lamenting

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

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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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

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

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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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

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

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