lamentations

NOUN

grief, complaint

Synonyms

WEAK

complaining dirge elegy grieving jeremiad keen keening lament moan moaning mourning plaint requiem sob sobbing sorrow tears threnody ululation wail wailing weeping

Antonyms

WEAK

celebration enjoyment praise

Example Sentences

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The Book of Lamentations contains a plea that God should “renew our days as of old.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 2, 2026

Lamentations rise into balmy air, weeping mourners embrace, and shovels bite the sandy earth.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 17, 2023

He put all of his effort into his music, resulting in 2016’s Lamentations, an EP of intimate soul hymnals constructed round lightly fingered riffs.

From The Guardian • Feb. 29, 2020

The Rev. Kevin Young has opened the Book of Jubilees and the Book of Lamentations, and he is here to pray.

From New York Times • Apr. 26, 2018

In the evening there were Psalms, Lamentations, Lessons, and the Miserere again, scarcely differing from those of the previous day.

From Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from Italy and Switzerland by Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix