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

Other Word Forms

• lamentedly adverb
• quasi-lamented adjective
• unlamented adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of lamented¹

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

Example Sentences

"They were just children who were barely learning to live. Where they should have been was studying in school, playing," lamented the boy's sister, herself barely 18 and unnamed for fear of reprisals.

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More than 60 years ago, Marxist auto worker James Boggs lamented automation’s role in the seemingly inevitable demise of the American laborer.

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“A bay with a lift and tools and no one to work in it—are you kidding me? Nope,” Mr. Farley lamented.

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As progressive dating coach Harris O’Malley lamented in a recent interview with Salon, “They’re all Candy Crush now. None of them are there to actually help you get introduced to people.”

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But several member states, notably the United States and France, lamented that the Council had not gone farther.

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Related Words

• bemoan 
• deplore 
• regret