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Lament vs Melancholic - What's the difference?

lament | melancholic |

As nouns the difference between lament and melancholic

is that lament is an expression of grief, suffering, or sadness while melancholic is a person who is habitually melancholy.

As a verb lament

is to express grief; to weep or wail; to mourn.

As an adjective melancholic is

filled with or affected by melancholy—great sadness or depression, especially of a thoughtful or introspective nature.

lament

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • An expression of grief, suffering, or sadness.
  • A song expressing grief.

    • Derived terms

    * (l) (rare)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To express grief; to weep or wail; to mourn.
  • * Bible, John xvi. 20
    • Ye shall weep and lament , but the world shall rejoice.
  • To feel great sorrow or regret; to bewail.
  • * 2014 , , " 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”.
  • * Dryden
    • One laughed at follies, one lamented crimes.

    Synonyms

    * bewail

    Related terms

    * lamentable * lamentability * lamentation * Lamentations

    External links

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    Anagrams

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    melancholic

    English

    Alternative forms

    * melancholick (obsolete)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Filled with or affected by melancholy—great sadness or depression, especially of a thoughtful or introspective nature.
  • * Prior
    • Just as the melancholic eye / Sees fleets and armies in the sky.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person who is habitually melancholy.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2008, date=March 16, author=Garrison Keillor, title=Woe Be Gone, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=Kafka, Hart Crane, Jackson Pollock , Tennessee Williams , Mark Rothko , melancholics all, so why shouldn’t we accept our own bleakness and take long walks in the winter woods and look at the gnarled limbs of trees and struggle with the inscrutable and accept the beauty of permanent turmoil? }}