What is another word for bemoan?

Pronunciation: [bɪmˈə͡ʊn] (IPA)

Bemoan is a word that is often used to express dissatisfaction, regret, or sorrow. However, there are plenty of synonyms for the word that can help you convey your feelings more accurately. Some of the popular synonyms for bemoan are lament, mourn, bewail, grieve, deplore, rue, and feel sorrowful for. Each of these words has a different shade of meaning and can be used in different contexts depending on the situation. For example, lament is more formal and describes a deep sorrow, while mourn has a more emotional connotation. Choosing the right synonym will help you express yourself more effectively and express your feelings more clearly.

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What are the opposite words for bemoan?

"Bemoan" is a word that expresses sadness and regret. Its antonyms are words that express the opposite feeling, such as "celebrate" and "rejoice". To celebrate means to express happiness and admiration for a person's achievements, such as graduating from university or getting a promotion at work. Rejoice means to feel joyful and excited about something, such as the birth of a baby or the accomplishment of a long-held goal. Other antonyms for bemoan include "praise", "commend", "applaud", and "commend". All of these words express positivity and appreciation, rather than regret and sadness.

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Usage examples for Bemoan

Let us bemoan this treatment of our best friend.
"Around The Tea-Table"
T. De Witt Talmage
My mother does nothing but bemoan herself on the disgrace that has fallen upon us.
"Beric the Briton A Story of the Roman Invasion"
G. A. Henty
O the many weeks that I have had to sit with my mouth in the dust to bemoan my own inward misery!
"Memoir and Diary of John Yeardley, Minister of the Gospel"
John Yeardley

Famous quotes with Bemoan

  • When you're on top and you lead the parade, everyone's there throwing lilies and lilac water on your head. But when those parades have gone by and there's a storm in your heart, there are very few people that are going to sit there and listen to you bemoan life.
    Sylvester Stallone
  • To bemoan the messiness of politics is not just a folly it betrays a dangerous impatience with basic realities. It is like becoming disturbed that people do not fall in love sensibly -- and so deciding to computerize the problem.
    Theodore Roszak
  • It is all very well for intellectuals in their air-conditioned offices to bemoan the unbelievable impact of either mean-spirited or silly rumours in the genesis of communal riots among the common folk. But in this instance, in their own reports on and analysis of communal violence, factual data were just as shamelessly replaced with invention, rumours and conspiracy theories. In this respect, religious extremists such as the Shahi Imam have behaved themselves better than the secularist campaigners who pose as the guardians of modernity and the scientific temper. Arundhati Roy risked the international fame she so clearly cherishes by going public with blatant lies about atrocities against named Gujarati Muslim women who turned out to be either non-existent or abroad at the time of the riots. Perhaps a fiction writer can afford this, but the news media with their deontology of accuracy and objectivity made themselves guilty of similar howlers. Internationally influential media like the Washington Post copied from an Islamist website rumours about Hindu provocations behind the Godhra carnage, falsely claiming a Gujarati journalist as source, and never publishing a correction when the journalist in question denied ever having put out such a story. With such media, who needs rumors?
    Koenraad Elst
  • It has been said that trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment rooted in the ground. But they never seem so to me. I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do. They go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!
    John Muir
  • See mother earth her offspring's fate bemoan, And nations gaze at scenes before unknown! See the bright beams of heaven's revolving light Involved in sorrows and the veil of night! The goddess comes, she moves divinely fair,
    Phillis Wheatley

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