Lament vs Lachrymose - What's the difference?
lament | lachrymose |
To express grief; to weep or wail; to mourn.
* Bible, John xvi. 20
To feel great sorrow or regret; to bewail.
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* Dryden
Tearful, sorrowful, sad, pertaining to tears, weeping, causing tears or crying.
* {{quote-book
, year=1927
, author=Thornton Wilder
, title=The Bridge of San Luis Rey
, page=69
, passage=It is true that Limeans were given to interpolating trivial songs into the most exquisite comedies and some lachrymose effects into the austerest music; but at least they never submitted to the boredom of a misplaced veneration.}}
As a noun lament
is an expression of grief, suffering, or sadness.As a verb lament
is to express grief; to weep or wail; to mourn.As an adjective lachrymose is
tearful, sorrowful, sad, pertaining to tears, weeping, causing tears or crying.lament
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* (l) (rare)Verb
(en verb)- Ye shall weep and lament , but the world shall rejoice.
Southampton hammer eight past hapless Sunderland in barmy encounter", The Guardian , 18 October 2014:
- By the end, Sunderland were lucky to lose by the same scoreline Northampton Town suffered against Southampton, in 1921. The Sunderland manager, Gus Poyet, lamented that it was “the most embarrassed I’ve ever been on a football pitch, without a doubt”.
- One laughed at follies, one lamented crimes.