WordWeb Online

1. Express grief verbally
   "we lamented the death of the child";
   - keen
    
2. Regret strongly
   "we lamented the loss of benefits";
   - deplore, bewail, bemoan

1. A cry of sorrow and grief
   "their pitiful laments could be heard throughout the ward";
   - lamentation, plaint, wail
    
2. A song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person
   - dirge, coronach, requiem, threnody, threnode
    
3. A mournful poem; a lament for the dead
   - elegy

Derived forms: lamented, laments, lamenting

Type of: complain, complaint, express emotion, express feelings, kick, kvetch [N. Amer], moan, plain [archaic], poem, quetch, song, sound off, verse form, vocal

Encyclopedia: Lament