laments
Grieves aloud for
Laments is the plural of lament—expressions of grief, sorrow, or regret.
A lament may be spoken, written, or sung: funeral laments, a poet's laments for lost love.
As a verb form, laments means to mourn or express deep regret: She laments the death of her father, He laments his wasted youth.
Mass for the deceased
- threnodyMemorial song of grief
- elegyPoem lamenting the departed
- keeningVocal mourning for dead
- funeral songMusic honoring the deceased
death song · plaintive · mournful · elegiac · funereal · ululation · wailing · sepulchral
Deep emotional distress
- mourningPeriod following loss
- weepingShedding tears audibly
- wailingProlonged mournful crying
- tearsViolent pulls apart
anguish · heartache · desolation · woe · misery · sadness · despair · melancholy
Formal claim of unfairness
- protestPublic expression of disapproval
- outcryLoud public protest
- pleaFormal request or defense
- jeremiadLengthy complaint prophesying doom
bemoaning · deploring · bewailing · decrying · grumbling · objection · dissatisfaction · discontent
Service honoring the dead
- eulogyTribute for the dead
- condolencesExpressions of grief support
- obituaryNotice of someone's passing
- memorialThing preserving remembrance
wake · shiva · interment · widow · orphan · mourner · bereaved · black armband
Guilt for wrongdoing
- contritionRemorseful state over misdeeds
- guiltMoral self-reproach
- repentanceRemorseful rejection of past wrongs
- rueFeel deep remorse
apology · atonement · penitence · self-reproach · shame · compunction · ruefulness · self-blame
requiem
Mass for the deceased
funeral song · death song · plaintive · mournful · elegiac · funereal · ululation · wailing · sepulchral · somber
sorrow
Deep emotional distress
tears · anguish · heartache · desolation · woe · misery · sadness · despair · melancholy · grieving
grievance
Formal claim of unfairness
jeremiad · bemoaning · deploring · bewailing · decrying · grumbling · objection · dissatisfaction · discontent · protestation
funeral
Service honoring the dead
- eulogyTribute for the dead
- condolencesExpressions of grief support
- obituaryNotice of someone's passing
memorial · wake · shiva · interment · widow · orphan · mourner · bereaved · black armband · sitting shiva
remorse
Guilt for wrongdoing
- contritionRemorseful state over misdeeds
- guiltMoral self-reproach
- repentanceRemorseful rejection of past wrongs
rue · apology · atonement · penitence · self-reproach · shame · compunction · ruefulness · self-blame · pangs
- elegieselegies, dirges, death poem, keening, keen
- Byzantine textshagiographies, hagiography, homilies, histories, historiography
- Celtic literaturehero tales, heroic tales, traditional tales, elegies, annals
- medieval songschanson, madrigal, ballade, rondeau, canso
- poetrypoem, poems, poetry, verse, verses
- complaintscomplaint, complain, complaints, complaint form, complaint letter
- love lamentSad song about romance
- late lamentedRecently deceased and mourned
lament, lamentation, lamenting, lamented, lamentable, lamenter, lamentably, unlamented