Synonyms of deploring

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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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

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

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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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

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

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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
• ruing
• repenting
• lamenting
• bewailing
• bemoaning
• 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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