Usually means: Expressing sorrow or regret vocally.
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General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. lamenting: Merriam-Webster
  2. lamenting: Collins English Dictionary
  3. lamenting: Vocabulary.com
  4. Lamenting, lamenting: Wordnik
  5. lamenting: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. lamenting: Wiktionary
  7. Lamenting, lamenting: Dictionary.com
  8. lamenting: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Lamenting: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. lamenting: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. lamenting: Rhymezone
  12. Lamenting: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. lamenting: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. lamenting: FreeDictionary.org
  15. lamenting: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. Lamenting: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lamenting: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lamenting: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (lamenting)

▸ noun:  Lamentation.

Similar:
wailful, sorrowful, wailing, lamentation, waymenting, wailment, bewailing, plain, languishing, bewailment, more...

Opposite:
rejoicing, celebrating, delight

Types:
wailing, crying, sobbing, bawling, keening, more...

Phrases:
lamenting song, lamenting the past, more...

Adjectives:
much, loud, great, such, worth, soft, little, long, narrow, best, wild

Colors:
    midnight blue,     deep purple,     slate gray,     indigo,     navy blue, more...



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Similar:
wailful, sorrowful, wailing, lamentation, waymenting, wailment, bewailing, plain, languishing, bewailment, more...

Opposite:
rejoicing, celebrating, delight

Types:
wailing, crying, sobbing, bawling, keening, more...

Phrases:
lamenting song, lamenting the past, more...

Adjectives:
much, loud, great, such, worth, soft, little, long, narrow, best, wild

Colors:
    midnight blue,     deep purple,     slate gray,     indigo,     navy blue, more...



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