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单词 lamented
释义
lamented
adjective
uk
/ləˈmen.tɪd/us
/ləˈmen.t̬ɪd/
If someone or something is lamented,peoplefeelsadthat they have or it has gone:
No man wasevermorerespectedor more lamented than he was.
It was areferenceto the lamented TVserial"Deadwood".
More examples
  • The Duchess isrememberedas one of thegreatbeautiesof Ireland and isdeeplylamented to thisday.
  • It was here that mydearand lamentedfatherwasborn.
  • After my lamentedhusbanddied, Imovedto becloserto mydaughter.
  • Aninjuryforcedthe lamentedwithdrawalof the team's mosttalentedplayer.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Making people sad, shocked and upset
  • aback
  • amiss
  • appal
  • be laughing on the other side ofyourfaceidiom
  • bite
  • gnaw
  • haunt
  • heartbreaker
  • heartbreakingly
  • hit/touch a (raw) nerveidiom
  • mess
  • nerve
  • sensitivity
  • shakesomeoneout ofsomething
  • shakesomeoneup
  • shake/rocksomethingtoitsfoundationsidiom
  • shattering
  • shocker
  • tear
  • toxic
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the late lamented
oftenhumorous
used for referring to someone who hasdiedor to something that nolongerexists:
The late lamented Lee Marvinoncesaid "actingis nothing; it's not like ajobor anything".
Enthusiasts of the late lamentedsupersonicaircraftemphasizeitsworld-beatingcruisingspeedof 1,350mph.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Remembering people who have died
  • bereavement
  • epitaph
  • grief
  • grieve
  • grieving
  • in memory ofsomeoneidiom
  • memento mori
  • memorial
  • memorial card
  • Memorial Day
  • memory
  • mourn
  • mournfulness
  • obituary
  • remembrance
  • Remembrance Day
  • rest
  • rest in peaceidiom
  • rip
  • shrine
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Non-existence and not being
(Definition oflamentedfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoflamented

lamented
It is to be hoped that hislamenteddeath did not occur too soon for him to leave his mark on the second volume.
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Shelamentedthat she had not had much leisure time when she was younger.
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Merchantslamentedthat underpopulation precluded genuine development of abundant resources, leaving the colonies with ' treasures that we cannot cultivate due to the absence of labour'.
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But that is a symptom of the vitality of the field and is surely something to be welcomed rather thanlamented.
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Theylamentedthe demise of baroque bel canto and of the castrato's voice.
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Another manager in a bottling companylamentedthat poor wages caused workers to resign at a rate of 40 per cent annually.
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Theylamentedlack of time for research and fieldwork.
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The poetlamentedthe administration's lack of sartorial wisdom.
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It would also explain why people, when they fell from favour, so frequentlylamentedthat they were also ruined financially.
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The question is whether all of this is to be regretted, naylamented.
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Even now, shelamented, some did not think that ' authentic workers ' deserved more than muddy roads and poor public services.
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On the other hand, plenty of commentators alsolamentedmany customers' seemingly tireless attempts to defraud and rob shopkeepers.
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Many critics of the argument havelamentedthe sort of hyper-rationalism of the project.
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The loss of aura that mechanical reproduction can effect is for him something to be celebrated, notlamentedor compensated for.
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A few women argued that they had accepted their socially devalued status even as theylamentedthe equation of beauty with youthfulness.
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