Crossword clues for lament
lament
- Regret being disabled, not losing heart
- Bemoan period of doing without cakes before noon
- Bemoan lieutenant having the last word inside
- The last word in lieutenant’s threnody
- Feel sorry about
- Sad song
- Cry of sorrow
- Greatly regret
- Expression of sorrow
- Sorrowful poem
- Deeply regret
- Feel regret for
- Expression of woe
- Cry for
- Show sorrow for
- Beef about
- Mournful dirge
- "Adelaide's ___" ("Guys and Dolls" song)
- Say "woe is me," say
- Moan about
- Mental (anag)
- Grieve for
- Express sorrow for
- Express sadness
- "Woe is me" soliloquy
- "Woe is me!" for example
- Keen
- Bemoan
- Sing the blues
- Threnody
- Weep for
- "Woe is me" soliloquy, e.g
- Regret deeply
- Really regret
- "Guys and Dolls" song "Adelaide's ___"
- "Alas, poor Yorick!," e.g.
- A cry of sorrow and grief
- A song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person
- Jeremiad
- "Ah, for the good old days," e.g.
- Elegy, for example
- Plaint
- Deplore
- Monody or threnody
- Wail
- Moan about feeble National Trust
- Complaint by City people against United's number 4
- Express regret about
- Express disappointment over feeble set of books
- Keen fellows put in muscle
- Song of grief
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lament \La*ment"\, v. i. [F. lamenter, L. lamentari, fr. lamentum a lament.] To express or feel sorrow; to weep or wail; to mourn.
Jeremiah lamented for Josiah.
--2 Chron.
xxxv. 25.
Ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice.
--John xvi.
20.
Lament \La*ment"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Lamented; p. pr. & vb. n. Lamenting.] To mourn for; to bemoan; to bewail.
One laughed at follies, one lamented crimes.
--Dryden.
Syn: To deplore; mourn; bewail. See Deplore.
Lament \La*ment"\, n. [L. lamentum. Cf. Lament, v.]
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Grief or sorrow expressed in complaints or cries; lamentation; a wailing; a moaning; a weeping.
Torment, and loud lament, and furious rage.
--Milton. An elegy or mournful ballad, or the like.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., back-formation from lamentation or else from Middle French lamenter "to moan, bewail" (14c.) and directly from Latin lamentari, from lamentum (see lamentation). Related: Lamented; lamenting.
1590s, from Middle French lament and directly from Latin lamentum (see lamentation).
Wiktionary
n. 1 An expression of grief, suffering, or sadness. 2 A song expressing grief. vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To express grief; to weep or wail; to mourn. 2 (context transitive English) To feel great sorrow or regret; to bewail.
WordNet
n. a cry of sorrow and grief; "their pitiful laments could be heard throughout the ward" [syn: lamentation, plaint, wail]
a song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person [syn: dirge, coronach, requiem, threnody]
a mournful poem; a lament for the dead [syn: elegy]
v. express grief verbally; "we lamented the death of the child" [syn: keen]
regret strongly; "I deplore this hostile action"; "we lamented the loss of benefits" [syn: deplore, bewail, bemoan]
Wikipedia
A lament or lamentation is a passionate expression of grief, often in music, poetry, or song form. The grief is most often born of regret, or mourning. Laments can also be expressed in a verbal manner, where the participant would lament about something they regret or someone they've lost, usually accompanied by wailing, moaning and/or crying. Laments constitute some of the oldest forms of writing and examples are present across human cultures.
Lament is the twelfth and last studio album of original material, from American Christian rock band Resurrection Band, released in 1995. The band also reverted to their original moniker with this album.
"Lament" is the third single and title track from Ultravox's seventh studio album, released on 21 June 1984.
The music video depicting the band members visiting their lovers on a remote Scottish island. The single didn't live up to its smash-hit predecessor, peaking at #22 in the UK music charts and #47 in the New Zealand charts.
Lament is the seventh studio album by British new wave band Ultravox, released in the UK on 6 April 1984. It was the last album featuring original drummer Warren Cann until the band's reunion album Brilliant in 2012. The album peaked at #8 on the UK album chart and was certified Gold by the BPI in June 1984 for 100,000 copies sold. It also reached #25 in Germany and #115 in the United States.
The album's sound saw the band continuing to move away from the synthpop style associated with their previous albums, heading into a more mainstream pop rock direction, not entirely dissimilar to contemporaries such as Simple Minds and U2 featuring greater use of guitar and 'stadium' reverb.
The album was re-released on CD in 1999 with seven bonus tracks consisting of various B-sides and remixes from the Lament period.
The album was once again re-released in 2009 as a double CD set. The first disc consisted of the original album remastered. The second disc contained remixes, B-sides and previously unreleased "work in progress" versions of songs.
A lament is a song, poem, or piece of music expressing grief, regret, or mourning.
Lament(s) may also refer to:
Lament is a compilation album by Japanese music production unit I've Sound and volume four in their Girls Compilation album series. It was released in a limited edition box set with the Out Flow album and the I've P.V Collection Vol.3: See You DVD on September 5, 2003. The two albums later received individual releases on October 30, 2003.
The songs on this album come from various adult PC games they have contributed to, although some are remix versions of the original. It also includes a new title track sung by Kotoko. Besides Kotoko, it features the vocals of Eiko Shimamiya, Kaori Utatsuki, Mami Kawada, Mell, Momo and Shiho.
Lament is a 1997 South Korean film.
Lament is a studio album by German band Einstürzende Neubauten, released on 7 November 2014.
The album is a studio reconstruction of a performance piece commissioned by the Belgian town of Diksmuide to commemorate the outbreak of World War I.
Among the album's pieces are an opening track featuring lyrics that are not sung, but intended to be read by the audience.
The track "The Willy - Nicky Telegrams" is a duet between Alexander Hacke, playing Russian Tsar Nicholas II, and Blixa Bargeld, as Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany, discussing the diplomatic manoeuvring that lead to war via telegram exchange. The two royals, first cousins by marriage, referred to one another as "Willy" and "Nicky".
The performance also includes two songs written by James Reese Europe, musical director of the United States' 369th Infantry Regiment, also known as the Harlem Hellfighters.
Usage examples of "lament".
Italy into Illyricum, affecting to lament his past conduct, and secretly contriving new mischiefs.
He stood upon an eminence--he might Have been a very father to his people, But all his aim and pleasure was to raise Himself and his own house: and now may those Whom he has aggrandized, lament for him.
The free toleration of the heathen and Jewish worship was bitterly lamented, as a circumstance which aggravated the misery of the Catholics, and the guilt of the impious tyrant of the East.
My hand began to press the bosom of her dress, where were imprisoned two spheres which seemed to lament their captivity.
It was that lament which in all the country from Mull to Moidart is the begetter of long thoughts.
It ran near the city Biblus, where the death of Thamuz was particularly lamented.
Soon we were hearing low lamenting brass music from every public bulding in the city.
The item he sought was not there: not a word about the late lamented Butin Arhava.
Chaldeo-Babylonian edition, which the lamented George Smith was the first to decipher on the cuneiform tablets exhumed at Nineveh, and now in the British Museum.
Raymond then lamented the cureless evil of his situation with Perdita.
He began chanting a dirge which lamented the death of Idman and sang of his deeds.
I have received, though unworthy and a sinner, and by the profession of knight errantry, that if, Senor, you satisfy me in this, I shall serve you with the devotion to which I am obliged by being the man I am, whether to remedy your misfortune, if it has a remedy, or to help you lament it, as I have promised you I would.
Curiously blundering, he attempts to prove that Jeanne had visions by relating a story much more calculated to give the impression that the young peasant girl was an apt feigner and that at the request of the nobles she reproduced one of her ecstasies, like the Esther of the lamented Doctor Luys.
Their ears were astonished by the harsh and unknown sounds of the Germanic dialect, and they ingeniously lamented that the trembling muses fled from the harmony of a Burgundian lyre.
What should we think if we could foresee that, a thousand years hence, when the present doctrines and customs of France and America are forgotten, some antiquary, seeking the reason why the mourners in Pere la Chaise and Mount Auburn laid clusters of flowers on the graves of their lamented ones, should deliberately conclude that it was believed the souls remained in the bodies in the tomb and enjoyed the perfume of the flowers?