Synonyms of the word

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.

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.

complaint

• n. A grievance, problem, difficulty, or concern; the act of complaining.
• n. (law) In a civil action, the first pleading of the plaintiff setting out the facts on which the claim…
• n. (law) In criminal law, the preliminary charge or accusation made by one person against another to the…
• n. A consumer complaint.
• n. A bodily disorder or disease; the symptom of such a disorder.

coronach

• n. (historical, Scotland, Ireland) dirge, lamentation.

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.

dirge

• n. A mournful poem or piece of music composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person.

elegy

• n. A mournful or plaintive poem; a funeral song; a poem of lamentation.

keen

• adj. Often with a prepositional phrase, or with to and an infinitive: showing a quick and ardent responsiveness…
• adj. Fierce, intense, vehement.
• adj. Having a fine edge or point; sharp.
• adj. Acute of mind, having or expressing mental acuteness; penetrating, sharp.
• adj. Acrimonious, bitter, piercing.
• adj. Of cold, wind, etc.: cutting, penetrating, piercing, sharp.
• adj. (Britain) Extremely low as to be competitive.
• adj. (US, informal, dated) Marvelous.
• adj. (obsolete) Brave, courageous; audacious, bold.
• v. (transitive, rare) To make cold, to sharpen.
• n. A prolonged wail for a deceased person.
• v. (intransitive) To utter a keen.
• v. (transitive) To utter with a loud wailing voice or wordless cry.
• v. (transitive) To mourn.

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.

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.

lamentation

• n. The act of lamenting.
• n. A sorrowful cry; a lament.
• n. Specifically, mourning.
• n. lamentatio, (part of) a liturgical Bible text (from the book of Job) and its musical settings, usually…
• n. A group of swans.

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.

plaint

• n. (poetic or archaic) A lament or woeful cry.
• n. A complaint.
• n. (archaic or Britain law) An accusation.

poem

• n. A literary piece written in verse.
• n. A piece of writing in the tradition of poetry, an instance of poetry.
• n. A piece of poetic writing, that is with an intensity or depth of expression or inspiration greater than…

quetch

• v. Alternative form of quitch.

requiem

• n. A mass (especially Catholic) to honor and remember a dead person.
• n. A musical composition for such a mass.
• n. A piece of music composed to honor a dead person.
• n. A large or dangerous shark, specifically, (zoology) a member of the family Carcharhinidae.

song

• n. A musical composition with lyrics for voice or voices, performed by singing.
• n. (by extension) Any musical composition.
• n. Poetical composition; poetry; verse.
• n. The act or art of singing.
• n. A melodious sound made by a bird, insect, whale or other animal.
• n. (ornithology) The distinctive sound that a male bird utters to attract a mate or to protect his territory;…
• n. Something that cost only a little; chiefly in for a song.
• n. An object of derision; a laughing stock.

threnody

• n. A song or poem of lamentation or mourning for a dead person; a dirge; an elegy.

vocal

• adj. Of or pertaining to the voice or speech.
• adj. Having a voice.
• adj. Uttered or modulated by the voice; oral.
• adj. Of or pertaining to a voice sound; spoken.
• adj. (phonetics) Consisting of, or characterized by, voice, or tone produced in the larynx, which may be modified,…
• adj. (phonetics) Of or pertaining to a vowel; having the character of a vowel; vowel.
• adj. loud; getting oneself heard.
• n. (phonetics) A vocal sound; specifically, a purely vocal element of speech, unmodified except by resonance;…
• n. (Roman Catholic Church) A man who has a right to vote in certain elections.

wail

• n. A prolonged cry, usually high-pitched, especially as of grief or anguish.
• n. Any similar sound as of lamentation; a howl.
• n. A sound made by emergency vehicle sirens, contrasted with "yelp" which is higher-pitched and faster.
• v. (intransitive) To cry out, as in sorrow or anguish.
• v. (intransitive) To weep, lament persistently or bitterly.
• v. (intransitive) To make a noise like mourning or crying.
• v. (transitive) To lament; to bewail; to grieve over.
• v. (slang, music) To perform with great liveliness and force.
• v. (obsolete) To choose; to select.