lamentation
4 synonyms and 2 antonyms for lamentation, grouped by meaning and by how common each one is.
Noun — The act of showing or expressing deep sadness.
Synonyms
Less common
Still standard English, but they carry more weight.
Rare, literary or technical
Precise, but they will stand out — check the sense before using one.
Synonyms by Meaning
Etymology
First recorded in 1375, the word came into English as Middle English lamentacioun, from Middle French lamentation, whose own source was Latin lāmentātiō ("wailing, moaning, weeping"). That in turn came from the deponent verb lāmentor, from lāmentum ("wail; wailing"), itself from a Proto-Indo-European root *leh₂- ("to h...
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