(formal or humorous) (of sb/sth that has died or disappeared) missed very much:
her late lamented husband * the last edition of the much lamented newspaper
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for lamented is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is lamented a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, lamented is tagged as adjective.
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