Verbal Ability - Synonyms - Discussion

Main Entry: lament / lamentation

Part of Speech: noun

Definition: grief, complaint

Synonyms: complaining, dirge, elegy, grieving, jeremiad, keen, keening, lament, moan, moaning, mourning, plaint, requiem, sob, sobbing, sorrow, tears, threnody, ululation, wail, wailing, weeping

Antonyms: celebration, enjoyment, praise

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Main Entry: lament

Part of Speech: verb

Definition: to mourn or grieve deeply

Synonyms: bawl, beat one's breast, bemoan, bewail, bleed, cry, deplore, eat one's heart out, howl, hurt, kick self, moan, rain, regret, repine, rue, sing, sob, sorrow, take it hard, wail, weep

Notes: bemoan is motivated when pity or grief is over an event that is joined to a consequence, whereas lament is motivated when the grief is over the event itself

Antonyms: celebrate, compliment, laud, praise

Similar word to stringent:.

Acrimonious, binding, brick-wall, by the book, by the numbers, compelling, confining, convincing, dead set on, demanding, draconian, drawing, dyed-in-the-wool, exacting, forceful, hard, hard-nosed, harsh, inflexible, iron-fisted, ironclad, picky, poignant, powerful, rigorous, rough, set, severe, stiff, strict, tough, unpermissive, valid.

Lament - Passionate expression of grief.

Complain - express dissatisfaction, state of grievance concerning.

Comment - brief explanatory remark, criticism.

Condone - forgive/overlook.

Console - comfort, esp in grief or disappointment.

Therefore answer: Lament = complain.

ACTUALLY lament is used for a song, poem or other expression of sadness for somebody who has died or for something that has ended.

Somewhat closer to COMPLAIN.

Because condone is to accept the bad happened. The console is to make someone happy while he/she is sad.

Lament- Passionate expression of grief
complain- express dissatisfaction,state of grievance concerning
comment - brief explanatory remark,criticism
condone-forgive/overlook
console-comfort , esp in grief or disappointment.

Therefore answer: Lament=complain.

This is solved by elimination.

condone : is to excuse, forgive, forget etc.

comment: (self - explanatory)

console : is to try cheering someone.

so, lament - meaning to mourn, grieve deeply, bawl, howl etc suits best with complain

LAMENT: means to express feelings of great sadness about something (or) to express annoyance or disappointment about something you think is unsatisfactory or unfair.

Answer: "Console" is the correct meaning of LAMENT.

Lament:

1. Express passionate grief about.
"he was lamenting the death of his infant daughter".

2. Express regret or disappointment about something.
"she lamented the lack of shops in the town".

LAMENT: means to express feelings of great sadness about something.

Complain: to say that you are annoyed, not satisfied, or unhappy about something or someone.

How they can be synonyms?

Console means to make happy when she/he is very sad or disappointed.

Lament means an expression of sadness.

Complaint means pain or illness, unhappy.