deplore
deplore is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 3 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.To complain of. [Obs.] Shak.
- 2.To regard as hopeless; to give up. [Obs.] Bacon. Mourn is the generic term, denoting a state of grief or sadness. To lament is to express grief by outcries, and denotes an earnest and strong expression of sorrow. To deplore marks a deeper and more prolonged emotion. To bewail and to bemoan are appropriate only to cases of poignant distress, in which the grief finds utterance either in wailing or in moans and sobs. A man laments his errors, and deplores the ruin they have brought on his family; mothers bewail or bemoan the loss of their children.
- 3.To lament. Gray.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Synonyms (Webster's 1913)
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- accusation
- aching
- again
- alas
- and
- bad
- behind
- bewail
- bitterness
- cast
- day
- discontent
- hang
- have
- heartburning
- homesick
- lament
- lamentable
- lamentation
- laudator
- leave
- lingering
- longing
- look
- mind
- most
- much
- nostalgia
- penitence
- pity
- prey
- recrimination
- regret
- regretful
- repent
- repine
- rue
- sorry
- the
- too
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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