lament something | lament that... | + speech to have or express very sad feelings about somebody/something synonym bemoan, bewail

to feel or express great sadness or disappointment about someone or something. synonym bemoan, bewail.

​a song, poem, etc. in which you express very sad feelings about somebody who has died or about something that has ended. a nostalgic lament for lost love.

a song, poem, or other expression of great sadness for someone who has died or for something that has ended a nostalgic lament for lost love.

To express profound sorrow for or concerning; also, in modern use, to feel sorrow for; to mourn for the loss of (a person); to bewail (an occurrence, etc.)

A set or conventional form of mourning; a song of grief, an elegy; esp. a dirge performed at a death or burial; also, the air to which such a lamentation is ...

​(of somebody/something that has died or disappeared) missed very much. her late lamented husband; the last edition of the much lamented newspaper.

[countable, uncountable] (formal) an expression of great sadness or disappointment lamentations from the team's supporters about their failure.

to express sadness and feeling sorry about something: The poem opens by lamenting (over) the death of a young man.

(of someone or something that has died or disappeared) missed very much her late lamented husband the last edition of the much lamented newspaper.