Synonyms of the word deplore


DEPLOREBEMOAN - BEWAIL - COMPLAIN - CRITICISE - CRITICIZE - KICK - KNOCK - KVETCH - LAMENT - PLAIN - QUETCH

deplore

  • v. (transitive) To bewail; to weep bitterly over; to feel sorrow for.
  • v. (transitive) To condemn; to express strong disapproval of.
  • v. (obsolete) To regard as hopeless; to give up.

bemoan

  • v. (transitive) To moan or complain about; be dismayed or worried about something.

bewail

  • v. To wail over; to feel or express deep sorrow for.

complain

  • v. (intransitive) To express feelings of pain, dissatisfaction, or resentment.
  • v. (intransitive) To make a formal accusation or bring a formal charge.
  • v. To creak or squeak, as a timber or wheel.

criticise

  • v. To evaluate (something), and judge its merits and faults.
  • v. To find fault (with something).

criticize

  • v. To find fault (with something).
  • v. To evaluate (something), assessing its merits and faults.

kick

  • v. (transitive) To strike or hit with the foot or other extremity of the leg.
  • v. (intransitive) To make a sharp jerking movement of the leg, as to strike something.
  • v. (transitive) To direct to a particular place by a blow with the foot or leg.
  • v. (with "off" or "out") To eject summarily.
  • v. (Internet) To forcibly remove a participant from an online activity.
  • v. (slang) To overcome (a bothersome or difficult issue or obstacle); to free oneself of (a problem).
  • v. To move or push suddenly and violently.
  • v. (of a firearm) To recoil; to push by recoiling.
  • v. (chess, transitive) To attack (a piece) in order to force it to move.
  • v. (cycling, intransitive) To accelerate quickly with a few pedal strokes in an effort to break away from…
  • n. A hit or strike with the leg, foot or knee.
  • n. The action of swinging a foot or leg.
  • n. (colloquial) Something that tickles the fancy; something fun or amusing.
  • n. (Internet) The removal of a person from an online activity.
  • n. A button (of a joypad, joystick or similar device) whose only or main current function is that when it…
  • n. (figuratively) Any bucking motion of an object that lacks legs or feet.
  • n. (uncountable and countable) piquancy.
  • n. A stimulation provided by an intoxicating substance.
  • n. (soccer) A pass played by kicking with the foot.
  • n. (soccer) The distance traveled by kicking the ball.
  • n. a recoil of a gun.
  • n. (informal) pocket.
  • n. An increase in speed in the final part of a running race.
  • v. To die.

knock

  • n. An abrupt rapping sound, as from an impact of a hard object against wood.
  • n. An impact.
  • n. (figuratively) criticism.
  • n. (cricket) a batsman's innings.
  • n. (automotive) Preignition, a type of abnormal combustion occurring in spark ignition engines caused by…
  • n. (cycling) Synonym of hunger knock.
  • v. (intransitive) To rap one's knuckles against something, especially wood.
  • v. (transitive, dated) To strike for admittance; to rap upon, as a door.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive, dated) To bump or impact.
  • v. (colloquial) To denigrate, undervalue.
  • v. (soccer) To pass, kick a ball towards another player.
  • v. (slang, dated, Britain) To impress strongly or forcibly; to astonish; to move to admiration or applause.

kvetch

  • v. To whine or complain, often needlessly and incessantly.
  • n. Person who endlessly whines or complains; a person who finds fault with anything.
  • n. An instance of kvetching; a complaint or whine.

lament

  • n. An expression of grief, suffering, or sadness.
  • n. A song expressing grief.
  • v. (intransitive) To express grief; to weep or wail; to mourn.
  • v. (transitive) To feel great sorrow or regret; to bewail.

plain

  • adj. (now rare, regional) Flat, level.
  • adj. Simple.
  • adj. Obvious.
  • adj. Open.
  • adj. Not unusually beautiful; unattractive.
  • adv. (colloquial) Simply.
  • n. (rare, poetic) A lamentation.
  • v. (reflexive, obsolete) To complain.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive, now rare, poetic) To lament, bewail.
  • n. An expanse of land with relatively low relief.
  • n. A battlefield.
  • n. (obsolete) A plane.
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To level; to raze; to make plain or even on the surface.
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To make plain or manifest; to explain.

quetch

  • v. Alternative form of quitch.

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