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lamented

[ luh-men-tid ]

adjective

  1. mourned for, as a person who is dead:

    Our late lamented friend.



lamented

/ ləˈmɛntɪd /

adjective

  1. grieved for or regretted (often in the phrase late lamented )

    our late lamented employer

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Derived Forms

  • laˈmentedly, adverb
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Other Words From

  • la·mented·ly adverb
  • quasi-la·mented adjective
  • unla·mented adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of lamented1

First recorded in 1605–15; lament + -ed 2
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Example Sentences

“I´m now writing to you from goat heaven,” he lamented on the blog he maintains.

When Rizzoli bookshop closed this past year on 57th Street many people lamented its loss.

He lamented that, “American politics has often been an arena for angry minds.”

Saban also lamented the fact that Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos purchased the Washington Post.

“He came out [to Colorado] and played in the primary,” Tancredo lamented.

He distinguished himself under Napoleon, by whom he was greatly lamented.

In memory of the late lamented general the present five-peso bank notes bear his vignette.

In view of approaching death, she often lamented that she could not see her daughter well married before she left the world.

So they talked and lamented when they saw a peasant woman approach who carried a basket of fruit.

Malicious persons in the town even declared that the lamented Torvestad had got his wife in a lottery at Christiansfeldt.

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