lamented

Expressed sorrow for

Lamented describes someone whose death is mourned or regretted: the late lamented Princess Diana, my lamented grandmother.

The word appears almost exclusively with the dead, often preceded by "late" as a stock phrase.

It can also describe things lost or discontinued: the lamented TV series.

regretted

remorseful

Feeling guilt for wrongdoing

repentant · sorry · regrettable · unfortunate · deplored · bemoaned · bewailed · rued · wished · mistake

speech

cried

Wept or shouted

bemoaned · bewailed · groaned · sobbed · exclaimed · declared · uttered · grieved · keened · complained

sorrowful

grief-stricken

Overwhelmed by profound loss

forlorn · anguished · despondent · melancholy · woebegone · crestfallen · disconsolate · dejected · pensive · wistful

elegiac

elegy

Poem lamenting the departed

tribute · commemoration · verse · mournful · plaintive · epitaph · panegyric · valediction · lyric · memorial

mourned

grief

Intense sorrow from loss

grieving · weeping · mourner · bereft · inconsolable · anguish · heartache · condolences · funeral · wake

Opposites
emotional response to loss or passing

lamentedcelebrated

Widely known and praised

rejoiced · gloried · joyed · cheered · welcomed

social regard for the departed

lamentedunlamented

Not grieved over

unmourned · ungrieved · forgotten · disregarded · uncelebrated

Phrases
Family

lament, lamentation, lamenting, lamentable, laments, lamenter, lamentably, lamentations, unlamented

Familiarity
Top 100,000
Profile
Used worldwide · Timeless · Abstract · Negative · Everyday, not technical · Rated G