Definitions for lamented

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lamented la·ment·ed

Spelling: [luh-men-tid]

IPA: /ləˈmɛn tɪd/

Lamented is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 311 anagrams from letters in lamented (adeelmnt).

Definitions for lamented

noun

1. an expression of grief or sorrow.
2. a formal expression of sorrow or mourning, especially in verse or song; an elegy or dirge.

adjective

1. mourned for, as a person who is dead:

verb (used with object)

1. to feel or express sorrow or regret for:
2. to mourn for or over.

verb (used without object)

1. to feel, show, or express grief, sorrow, or regret.
2. to mourn deeply.

Origin of lamented

First recorded in 1605-15; lament + -ed²

Examples for lamented

Often have I lamented the distance which destiny had placed between us.

Saban also lamented the fact that Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos purchased the Washington Post.

Republican candidates in states like Georgia and Virginia lamented high poverty rates.

It is only by the intervention of a miracle that we can ever revisit the dear, lamented fields of Clwyd.

“I´m now writing to you from goat heaven,” he lamented on the blog he maintains.

"If only the Mayor of the Borough had performed the ceremony," Gilbert lamented.

He hated vice, was indulgent to frailties, and lamented misfortunes.

He lamented that, “American politics has often been an arena for angry minds.”

I have often lamented the advantage which the French have over us in that particular.

“He came out [to Colorado] and played in the primary,” Tancredo lamented.