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

Derived Forms

• laˈmentedly, adverb

Other Words From

• la·mented·ly adverb
• quasi-la·mented adjective
• unla·mented adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of lamented¹

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

Example Sentences

“I´m now writing to you from goat heaven,” he lamented on the blog he maintains.

From The Daily Beast

When Rizzoli bookshop closed this past year on 57th Street many people lamented its loss.

From The Daily Beast

He lamented that, “American politics has often been an arena for angry minds.”

From The Daily Beast

Saban also lamented the fact that Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos purchased the Washington Post.

From The Daily Beast

“He came out [to Colorado] and played in the primary,” Tancredo lamented.

From The Daily Beast

He distinguished himself under Napoleon, by whom he was greatly lamented.

From Project Gutenberg

In memory of the late lamented general the present five-peso bank notes bear his vignette.

From Project Gutenberg

In view of approaching death, she often lamented that she could not see her daughter well married before she left the world.

From Project Gutenberg

So they talked and lamented when they saw a peasant woman approach who carried a basket of fruit.

From Project Gutenberg

Malicious persons in the town even declared that the lamented Torvestad had got his wife in a lottery at Christiansfeldt.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• bemoan
• deplore
• regret