wailer
One who keens
A wailer is someone who wails—crying out in grief, lamentation, or distress.
The term applies to mourners at funerals, especially in traditions with ritualized keening: The wailers gathered around the coffin.
It extends to anyone making prolonged mournful sounds: The baby was a wailer who kept the whole building awake.
Vocal mourning for dead
- lamentationPassionate expression of grief
- funeralService honoring the dead
- bereavementState following loss
- eulogyTribute for the dead
wake · condolence · grieving · dirge · threnody · shiva · widow · orphan
- JamaicaCaribbean island nation
- RastafariJamaican movement honoring Ethiopian divinity
- rootsUnderground nutrient absorbers
- dubAdd replacement audio
Peter Tosh · ska · rocksteady · dancehall · Kingston · sound system · toasting · riddim
keening
Vocal mourning for dead
- lamentationPassionate expression of grief
- funeralService honoring the dead
- bereavementState following loss
eulogy · wake · condolence · grieving · dirge · threnody · shiva · widow · orphan · bereaved
Bob Marley
- JamaicaCaribbean island nation
- RastafariJamaican movement honoring Ethiopian divinity
- rootsUnderground nutrient absorbers
Peter Tosh · dub · ska · rocksteady · dancehall · Kingston · sound system · toasting · riddim · One Love
crying
Emotional tear release
howling · bawling · whimpering · blubbering · moaning · anguish · distress · despair · heartache · sorrow
singer
Vocal music performer
- howlerEmbarrassingly obvious mistake
- croonerSoft-voiced romantic vocalist
- belterPowerful vocalist or stunner
chanteuse · banshee · keener · lamenter · crier · screamer · moaner · siren · yowler
- mournersmourner, griever, mourners, grieving parent, grievers
wailerstoic
Uncomplaining endurer of hardship
repressor · bottler · internalizer · poker face · suppressor
- bob marley and the wailers
- weeping and wailing
- wail onAttack with repeated blows
- banshee wailSupernatural mourning shriek
- Wailing WallSacred Temple remnant
wail, wailing, wails, wailed, bewail, wailers, bewailing, bewailed