Synonyms of deploring

deploring 1 of 2

adjective

as in weeping

expressing or suggesting mourning

a deploring look on his face long after the funeral had ended

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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

deploring

2 of 2

verb

present participle of deplore

1

as in mourning

to feel or express sorrow for

a statement from the bishops deploring the loss of life in the war overseas

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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

2

as in regretting

to feel sorry or dissatisfied about

deplored the fact that his guests were seeing his apartment at its messiest

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of deploring

Verb

Regardless of the level of material damage, Shiites are deploring the physical and spiritual assaults against their sacred landscape. — Mary Thurlkill, The Conversation, 30 Mar. 2026