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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. vocally expressing grief or sorrow or resembling such expression;
- Example: "lamenting sinners"
- Example: "wailing mourners"
- Example: "the wailing wind"
- Example: "wailful bagpipes"
- Example: "tangle her desires with wailful sonnets"- Shakespeare
[syn: lamenting, wailing, wailful]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Lament \La*ment"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Lamented; p. pr. & vb.
   n. Lamenting.]
   To mourn for; to bemoan; to bewail.
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         One laughed at follies, one lamented crimes. --Dryden.

   Syn: To deplore; mourn; bewail. See Deplore.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Lamenting \La*ment"ing\, n.
   Lamentation.
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         Lamentings heard i' the air.             --Shak.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

lamenting
    adj 1: vocally expressing grief or sorrow or resembling such
           expression; "lamenting sinners"; "wailing mourners"; "the
           wailing wind"; "wailful bagpipes"; "tangle her desires
           with wailful sonnets"- Shakespeare [syn: lamenting,
           wailing, wailful]