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| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | express sorrow |
| Synonyms: | beat one's breast, bewail, complain, cry over spilled milk, deplore, grieve for, lament, moan over, mourn, regret, rue, sing the blues, weep for |
| Notes: | bemoan is motivated when pity or grief is over an event that is joined to a consequence, whereas lament is motivated when the grief is over the event itself |
| Antonyms: | be happy, gloat |
| Concept: | Pity. |
| Category: | 2. Special Sympathetic Affections |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
pity, compassion, commiseration; bowels, of compassion; sympathy, fellow-feeling, tenderness, yearning, forbearance, humanity, mercy, clemency; leniency (lenity); charity, ruth, long- suffering., melting mood; argumentum ad misericordiam, quarter, grace, locus paenititentiae., sympathizer; advocate, friend, partisan, patron, wellwisher.
-verbs
pity; have pity, show pity, take pity; commiserate, compassionate; condole; sympathize; feel for, be sorry for, yearn for; weep, melt, thaw, enter into the feelings of., forbear, relent, relax, give quarter, wipe the tears, parcere subjectis, give a coup de grace, put out of one's misery., raise pity, excite pity; touch, soften; melt, melt the heart; propitiate, disarm., ask for mercy; supplicate (request); cry for quarter, beg one's life, kneel; deprecate.
-adjectives
pitying; pitiful, compassionate, sympathetic, touched., merciful, clement, ruthful; humane; humanitarian (philanthropic); tender, tender hearted, tender as a chicken; soft, soft hearted; unhardened; lenient; exorable, forbearing; melting; weak.
-phrases
one's heart bleeding for; haud ignara mali miseris succurrere disco [Vergil]; "a fellow feeling makes one wondrous kind" [Garrick]; onor di bocca assai giova e poco
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| Antonyms: | pitilessness |
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