lamenting

Adjective

WordNet 3.0

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”Synonyms: wailing wailful

Lament \La*ment"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Lamented; p. pr. & vb. n. Lamenting.] To mourn for; to bemoan; to bewail. [1913 Webster]

One laughed at follies, one lamented crimes. --Dryden.

Syn: To deplore; mourn; bewail. See Deplore. [1913 Webster]

Lamenting \La*ment"ing\, n. Lamentation. [1913 Webster]

Lamentings heard i' the air. --Shak. [1913 Webster]