LAMENTATION Synonyms

• state of sorrow over the death or departure of a loved one

• the passionate and demonstrative activity of expressing grief

• sorrowful through loss or deprivation

• (United Kingdom) a written statement of the grounds of complaint made to court of law asking for the grievance to be redressed

• a cry of sorrow and grief

• a narrative song with a recurrent refrain

• a narrative poem of popular origin

• a song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person

• the specified day of the month

• a participant in a date

• a meeting arranged in advance

• the present

• the particular day, month, or year (usually according to the Gregorian calendar) that an event occurred

• a particular day specified as the time something happens

• sweet edible fruit of the date palm with a single long woody seed

• go on a date with

• stamp with a date

• assign a date to; determine the (probable) date of

• date regularly; have a steady relationship with

• provide with a dateline; mark with a date

• a song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person

• intense sorrow caused by loss of a loved one (especially by death)

• something that causes great unhappiness

• a long loud emotional utterance

• extraordinarily good or great; used especially as intensifiers

• preserve of crushed fruit

• informal terms for a difficult situation

• a dense crowd of people

• deliberate radiation or reflection of electromagnetic energy for the purpose of disrupting enemy use of electronic devices or systems

• press tightly together or cram

• push down forcibly

• crush or bruise

• interfere with or prevent the reception of signals

• get stuck and immobilized

• crowd or pack to capacity

• block passage through

• a song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person

• a musical setting for a Mass celebrating the dead

• a Mass celebrated for the dead

• an emotion of great sadness associated with loss or bereavement

• sadness associated with some wrong done or some disappointment

• something that causes great unhappiness

• the state of being sad

• feel grief

• loud cries made while weeping

• vocally expressing grief or sorrow or resembling such expression

• the process of shedding tears (usually accompanied by sobs or other inarticulate sounds)

• showing sorrow

• having branches or flower heads that bend downward

• regret strongly

• a funeral lament sung with loud wailing

• having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions

• intense or sharp

• excellent

• painful as if caused by a sharp instrument

• having a sharp cutting edge or point

• express grief verbally

• an utterance expressing pain or disapproval

• indicate pain, discomfort, or displeasure

• a cry of sorrow and grief

• emit long loud cries

• cry weakly or softly