deplore

Verb

Meaning

To feel or to express deep and poignant grief for; to bewail; to lament; to mourn; to sorrow over.

To complain of.

To regard as hopeless; to give up.

To lament.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

bewail lament bemoan condemn mourn rue rail hate mourning regret dislike sorrow sorry complain lamented
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Antonyms

like support back allow revel accept
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Hypernyms

plain kick knock complain criticise criticize

Hyponyms

execrate anathematize accurse anathemise comminate anathematise

Phrases with the word

to deplore deplore for

Derivatives

deplored deploring

Anagrams

redpole

Examples

I deplore this hostile action Source: Internet

we lamented the loss of benefits Source: Internet

We deplore the government's treatment of political prisoners Source: Internet

And it is equally impossible, no matter how much you deplore the extravagances and improprieties of his works, to make him into an insignificant one." Source: Internet

Even while broadsheet commentators this week deplore Priti Patel’s alleged bullying of senior Whitehall officials (denied by the home secretary), in the very next paragraph they chalk it up as the inevitable price of all that reforming zeal. Source: Internet

As a huge fan of Barbara Michaels, Mary Stewart and Antoinette Stockenberg, I deplore the dearth of wonderful, ghostly gothic novels like they wrote. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

deplorably deplorate deploration deplore for deploredly deploredness