adjective
- mourned for, as a person who is dead: Our late lamented friend.
verb (used with object)
- to feel or express sorrow or regret for: to lament his absence.
- to mourn for or over.
verb (used without object)
- to feel, show, or express grief, sorrow, or regret.
- to mourn deeply.
noun
- an expression of grief or sorrow.
- a formal expression of sorrow or mourning, especially in verse or song; an elegy or dirge.
adjective
- grieved for or regretted (often in the phrase late lamented)our late lamented employer
verb
- to feel or express sorrow, remorse, or regret (for or over)
noun
- an expression of sorrow
- a poem or song in which a death is lamented
adj.“mourned for,” 1610, from past participle of lament (v.). v.mid-15c., back-formation from lamentation or else from Middle French lamenter “to moan, bewail” (14c.) and directly from Latin lamentari, from lamentum (see lamentation). Related: Lamented; lamenting. n.1590s, from Middle French lament and directly from Latin lamentum (see lamentation).