Word of the Day: Catachrestical
1. To feel or to express deep and poignant grief for; to bewail; to lament; to mourn; to sorrow over.
2. To complain of.
3. To regard as hopeless; to give up.
The state of being deplored or deplorable.
Regret Roget’s Thesaurus §833
N. regret, repining, homesickness, nostalgia, mal du # pays, maladie, lamentation &c, 839, penitence, bitterness, heartburning, recrimination (accusation) 938, laudator temporis acti
V. regret, deplore, bewail, repine, cast a longing lingering look behind, rue, rue the day, repent, infandum renovare dolorem, prey on the mind, weigh on the mind, have a weight on the mind, leave an aching void
Adv. regrettably, unfortunately, most unfortunately
Phr. 'tis pity, 'tis too true, "sigh'd and look'd and sigh'd again", "i'm sorry."
Int. alas, what a pity, hang it
Lamentation Roget’s Thesaurus §839
N. lament, lamentation, wail, complaint, plaint, murmur, mutter, grumble, groan, moan, whine, whimper, sob, sigh, suspiration, heaving, deep sigh, cry, scream, howl, outcry, wail of woe, ululation, frown, scowl, tear, weeping, flood of tears, fit of crying, lacrimation, lachrymation, melting mood, weeping and gnashing of teeth, plaintiveness, languishment, condolence, mourning, weeds, willow, cypress, crape, deep mourning, sackcloth and ashes, lachrymatory, knell, deep death song, dirge, coronach, nenia, requiem, elegy, epicedium, threne, monody, threnody, jeremiad, jeremiade|, ullalulla, mourner, grumbler, noobe, heraclitus
V. lament, mourn, deplore, grieve, weep over, bewail, bemoan, condole with, fret, wear mourning, go into mourning, put on mourning, wear the willow, wear sackcloth and ashes, infandum renovare dolorem, give sorrow words, sigh, give a sigh, heave, fetch a sigh, "waft a sigh from indus to the pole", sigh "like a furnace", wail, cry, weep, sob, greet, blubber, pipe, snivel, bibber, whimper, pule, pipe one's eye, drop tears, shed tears, drop a tear, shed a tear, melt into tears, burst into tears, fondre en larmes, cry oneself blind, cry one's eyes out, yammer, scream, mew, groan, moan, whine, roar, roar like a bull, bellow like a bull, cry out lustily, rend the air, frown, scowl, make a wry face, gnash one's teeth, wring one's hands, tear one's hair, beat one's breast, roll on the ground, burst with grief, complain, murmur, mutter, grumble, growl, clamor, make a fuss about, croak, grunt, maunder, deprecate, cry out before one is hurt, complain without cause
Adj. lamenting, in mourning, in sackcloth and ashes, sorrowing, sorrowful, mournful, tearful, lachrymose, plaintive, plaintful, querulous, querimonious, in the melting mood, threnetic, in tears, with tears in one's eyes, with moistened eyes, with watery eyes, bathed in tears, dissolved in tears, "like niobe all tears", elegiac, epicedial
Adv. de profundis, les larmes aux yeux
Int. heigh-ho, alas, alack, o dear, ah me, woe is me, lackadaisy, well a day, lack a day, alack a day, wellaway, alas the day, o tempora o mores, what a pity, miserabile dictu, o lud lud, too true, phr, tears standing in the eyes, tears starting from the eyes, eyes suffused, eyes swimming, eyes brimming, eyes overflowing with tears, "if you have tears prepare to shed them now", interdum lacrymae pondera vocis habent, "strangled his language in his tears", "tears such as angels weep"
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