LAMENTING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lamenting mean? 

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

1. vocally expressing grief or sorrow or resembling such expression

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• LAMENTING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Vocally expressing grief or sorrow or resembling such expression

Synonyms:

lamenting; wailful; wailing

Context example:

tangle her desires with wailful sonnets

Similar:

sorrowful (experiencing or marked by or expressing sorrow especially that associated with irreparable loss)

 Context examples 

You are a mere infant, but you'll go next, Jo, and we'll be left lamenting, said Laurie, shaking his head over the degeneracy of the times.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I have heard him lamenting her having no instrument repeatedly; oftener than I should suppose such a circumstance would, in the common course of things, occur to him.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

When he got down, the five of them were sitting screaming and lamenting quite piteously, each out-doing the other.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

After lamenting it, however, at some length, she had the consolation that Mr. Bingley would be soon down again and soon dining at Longbourn, and the conclusion of all was the comfortable declaration, that though he had been invited only to a family dinner, she would take care to have two full courses.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

And I may say with truth, that in the midst of my own misfortunes I could not forbear lamenting my poor nurse, the grief she would suffer for my loss, the displeasure of the queen, and the ruin of her fortune.

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

This wish was levelled principally at Julia, who had just applied for permission to go to town with Maria; and as Sir Thomas thought it best for each daughter that the permission should be granted, Lady Bertram, though in her own good-nature she would not have prevented it, was lamenting the change it made in the prospect of Julia's return, which would otherwise have taken place about this time.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Why they WERE different, Robert exclaimed to her himself in the course of a quarter of an hour's conversation; for, talking of his brother, and lamenting the extreme GAUCHERIE which he really believed kept him from mixing in proper society, he candidly and generously attributed it much less to any natural deficiency, than to the misfortune of a private education; while he himself, though probably without any particular, any material superiority by nature, merely from the advantage of a public school, was as well fitted to mix in the world as any other man.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

He had remained in Shropshire, lamenting the blindness of his own pride, and the blunders of his own calculations, till at once released from Louisa by the astonishing and felicitous intelligence of her engagement with Benwick.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Laurie smiled, but he liked the spirit with which she took up a new purpose when a long-cherished one died, and spent no time lamenting.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Now, though it is said that fishes are dumb, he heard them lamenting that they must perish so miserably, and, as he had a kind heart, he got off his horse and put the three prisoners back into the water.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)