LAMENTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lamented mean? 

• LAMENTED (adjective)
  The adjective LAMENTED has 1 sense:

1. mourned or grieved for

  Familiarity information: LAMENTED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LAMENTED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Mourned or grieved for

Context example:

the imprint of our wise and lamented friend

Antonym:

unlamented (not grieved for; causing no mourning)

 Context examples 

This time Martin nodded, and Joe lamented, "Wish I was."

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

“From the point of view of the criminal expert,” said Mr. Sherlock Holmes, “London has become a singularly uninteresting city since the death of the late lamented Professor Moriarty.”

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I lamented my own folly and wilfulness, in attempting a second voyage, against the advice of all my friends and relations.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

That’s a nice trick! said her master, and lamented the fine chickens.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

They had been speaking of it as they walked about Highbury the day before, and Frank Churchill had most earnestly lamented her absence.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

There’s a touch of the late lamented Sixteen-string Jack about the trick.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was a favorite ditty of the late lamented Professor Moriarty.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In this emigration I exceedingly lamented the loss of the fire which I had obtained through accident and knew not how to reproduce it.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

“I so far agree with what Miss Trotwood has remarked,” observed Miss Murdstone, bridling, “that I consider our lamented Clara to have been, in all essential respects, a mere child.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Her father read his newspaper, and her mother lamented over the ragged carpet as usual, while the tea was in preparation, and wished Rebecca would mend it; and Fanny was first roused by his calling out to her, after humphing and considering over a particular paragraph: What's the name of your great cousins in town, Fan?

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)