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Adjective lamenting has 1 sense
- lamenting, wailing, wailful - vocally expressing grief or sorrow or resembling such expression; "lamenting sinners"; "wailing mourners"; "the wailing wind"; "wailful bagpipes"; "tangle her desires with wailful sonnets"- Shakespeare
Antonym: joyful (indirect, via sorrowful)
Verb lament has 2 senses
- lament, keen - express grief verbally; "we lamented the death of the child"
--1 is one way to express emotion, express feelings
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- deplore, lament, bewail, bemoan - regret strongly; "I deplore this hostile action"; "we lamented the loss of benefits"
--2 is one way to complain, kick, plain, sound off, quetch, kvetch
Sample sentence:
They lament that there was a traffic accident
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