Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

Lamentation (Expression of pain)

Nouns
  • lament, lamentation
  • wail, complaint, plaint, murmur, mutter, grumble, groan, moan, whine, whimper, sob, sigh, suspiration, heaving, deep sigh. cry etc. (vociferation) Cry
  • scream, howl
  • outcry, wail of woe, ululation
  • frown, scowl. tear
  • weeping etc. v.
  • flood of tears, fit of crying, lacrimation, lachrymation, melting mood, weeping and gnashing of teeth. plaintiveness etc. adj.
  • languishment
  • condolence etc. Condolence. mourning, weeds, willow, cypress, crape, deep mourning
  • sackcloth and ashes
  • lachrymatory
  • knell etc. Interment
  • deep death song, dirge, coronach, nenia, requiem, elegy, epicedium
  • threne
  • monody, threnody
  • jeremiad, jeremiade
  • ullalulla. mourner
  • grumbler etc. (discontent) Discontent
  • Noobe
  • Heraclitus.
Verbs
  • lament, mourn, deplore, grieve, weep over
  • bewail, bemoan
  • condole with etc. Condolence
  • fret etc. (suffer) Pain
  • wear mourning, go into mourning, put on mourning
  • wear the willow, wear sackcloth and ashes
  • c. (regret) Regret give sorrow words. sigh
  • give a sigh, heave, fetch a sigh
  • waft a sigh from Indus to the pole" [Pope]
  • sigh 'like a furnace'" [As you Like It]
  • wail. cry, weep, sob, greet, blubber, pipe, snivel, bibber, whimper, pule
  • pipe one's eye
  • drop tears, shed tears, drop a tear, shed a tear
  • melt into tears, burst into tears
  • cry oneself blind, cry one's eyes out
  • yammer. scream etc. (cry out) Cry
  • mew etc. (animal sounds) [Animal sounds.] Ululation
  • groan, moan, whine
  • roar
  • roar like a bull, bellow like a bull
  • cry out lustily, rend the air. frown, scowl, make a wry face, gnash one's teeth, wring one's hands, tear one's hair, beat one's breast, roll on the ground, burst with grief. complain, murmur, mutter, grumble, growl, clamor, make a fuss about, croak, grunt, maunder
  • deprecate etc. (disapprove) Disapprobation. cry out before one is hurt, complain without cause.
Adjectives
  • lamenting etc. v.
  • in mourning, in sackcloth and ashes
  • sorrowing, sorrowful etc. (unhappy) Pain
  • mournful, tearful
  • lachrymose
  • plaintive, plaintful
  • querulous, querimonious
  • in the melting mood
  • threnetic. in tears, with tears in one's eyes
  • with moistened eyes, with watery eyes
  • bathed in tears, dissolved in tears
  • like Niobe all tears" [Hamlet]. elegiac, epicedial.
Int
  • heigh-ho!, alas!, alack! , O dear!, ah me!, woe is me!, lackadaisy! , well a day!, lack a day!, alack a day! , wellaway! , alas the day!, O tempora O mores! , what a pity!, O lud lud! , too true!
Phrases
  • tears standing in the eyes, tears starting from the eyes
  • eyes suffused, eyes swimming, eyes brimming, eyes overflowing with tears
  • if you have tears prepare to shed them now" [Julius Caesar]
  • strangled his language in his tears" [Henry VIII]
  • tears such as angels weep" [Paradise Lost].