complaint, plaint, murmur, mutter, grumble, groan, moan, whine,
whimper, sob, sigh, suspiration, heaving, deep sigh.
cry &c (vociferation) 411; scream, howl; outcry, wail of woe,
ululation; frown, scowl.
tear; weeping &c v.; flood of tears, fit of crying, lacrimation,
lachrymation†, melting mood, weeping and gnashing of teeth.
plaintiveness &c adj.; languishment†; condolence &c 915.
mourning, weeds, willow, cypress, crape, deep mourning; sackcloth
and ashes; lachrymatory†; knell &c 363; deep death song, dirge,
coronach†, nenia†, requiem, elegy, epicedium†; threne†; monody, threnody;
jeremiad, jeremiade†; ullalulla†.
mourner; grumbler &c (discontent) 832; Noobe; Heraclitus.
V. lament, mourn, deplore, grieve, weep over; bewail, bemoan; condole
with &c 915; fret &c (suffer) 828; wear mourning, go into mourning, put
on mourning; wear the willow, wear sackcloth and ashes; infandum
renovare dolorem [Lat.] [Vergil]; &c (regret) 833 give sorrow words.
sigh; give a sigh, heave, fetch a sigh; waft a sigh from Indus to
the pole [Pope]; sigh 'like a furnace' [As you Like It]; wail.
cry, weep, sob, greet, blubber, pipe, snivel, bibber†, whimper,
pule; pipe one's eye; drop tears, shed tears, drop a tear, shed a tear;
melt into tears, burst into tears; fondre en larmes [Fr.]; cry oneself
blind, cry one's eyes out; yammer.
scream &c (cry out) 411; mew &c (animal sounds) 412; groan, moan,
whine; roar; roar like a bull, bellow like a bull; cry out lustily,
rend the air.
frown, scowl, make a wry face, gnash one's teeth, wring one's
hands, tear one's hair, beat one's breast, roll on the ground, burst
with grief.
complain, murmur, mutter, grumble, growl, clamor, make a fuss
about, croak, grunt, maunder; deprecate &c (disapprove) 932.
cry out before one is hurt, complain without cause.
Adj. lamenting &c v.; in mourning, in sackcloth and ashes; sorrowing,
sorrowful &c (unhappy) 828; mournful, tearful; lachrymose; plaintive,
plaintful†; querulous, querimonious†; in the melting mood; threnetic†.
in tears, with tears in one's eyes; with moistened eyes, with
watery eyes; bathed in tears, dissolved in tears; like Niobe all tears
[Hamlet].
elegiac, epicedial†.
Adv. de profundis [Lat.]; les larmes aux yeux [Fr.].
Int. heigh-ho!, alas!, alack!†, O dear!, ah me!, woe is me!,
lackadaisy!†, well a day!, lack a day!, alack a day!†, wellaway!†, alas
the day!, O tempora O mores!†, what a pity!, miserabile dictu! [Lat.], O
lud lud!†, too true!,
Phr. tears standing in the eyes, tears starting from the eyes; eyes
suffused, eyes swimming, eyes brimming, eyes overflowing with tears; if
you have tears prepare to shed them now [Julius Caesar]; interdum
lacrymae pondera vocis habent [Lat.] [Ovid]; strangled his language in
his tears [Henry VIII]; tears such as angels weep [Paradise Lost].