Synonyms Test 151

2. innocent, ingenuous, artless, guileless, simple; naive, unworldly, unsophisticated; trustful, trusting, unwary, unsuspicious, gullible; childlike, childish, infant, infantile, born yesterday, Inf wet behind the ears, lame, adj. 1. hamstrung, hobbled, hobbling, limping, halt, Inf game, (of horses) Vet. Pathol, spavined or Chiefly Scot. spaviet; crippled, maimed, disabled, incapacitated, injured, impaired, damaged, hurt. »2. weak, feeble, thin, wishy-washy, flimsy, unconvincing; inadequate, insufficient, deficient, wanting, lacking; unsatisfactory, unsatisfying, inferior, mediocre, displeasing, disappointing, no good, not good enough; poor, clumsy, ineffective, ineffectual, inefficacious, of no effect, half-baked, SI. half-assed.
-v. 3. hamstring, hobble, wing; disable, incapacitate, maim, cripple; injure, hurt, damage, lament, v. 1. mourn, mourn for, sorrow, grieve, grieve for, feel for, be or feel sorry for, weep for, pity; condole, commiserate, compassionate, sympathize; deplore, bewail, bemoan, moan, groan, Inf. sing or cry the blues; regret, repine, rue, rue the day, Archaic. pine; fret, reproach oneself, SI. kick oneself, cry over spilt milk.
2. weep, cry, sob, Scot. and North Eng. greet; keen, ululate, wail, howl; beat one's breast, flagellate oneself, tear one's hair, gnash one's teeth; go into mourning, wear or put on mourning.
-n. 3. lamentation, complaint, Archaic, plaint; moan, groan; keen, wail, ululation, howl; cry, outcry, bawl, jeremiad; sob, whine, whimper.
4. elegy, requiem, monody, threnody; dirge, epicedi-um, (in Scotland and Ireland) coronach, (in the Scottish Highlands) pibroch, death song; death or dead march, funeral march. lamentable, adj. 1. regrettable, deplorable, rueful, woeful, woebegone, unfortunate; pitiful, pitiable, piteous, to be pitied; sad, doleful, dolorous, sorrowful, distressing, depressing, mournful, grievous, plaintive; sore, sharp, bitter, painful; comfortless, discomforting, uncomfortable; dreary, cheerless, joyless, dismal, lugubrious; miserable, wretched, abject, squalid, stark.
2. Figurative, insufficient, inadequate, unsatisfactory, unsatisfying; poor, meager, scanty, skimpy, scrimpy, beggarly, niggardly, sorry, slight; paltry, puny, petty, piddling, poky, Inf. measly, SI. crummy, SI. lousy, SI. rotten. lamentation, n. 1. mourning, grieving, lamenting, groaning, moaning, bemoaning, bewailing; wailing, howling, keening; crying, weeping, sobbing, bawling; commiseration, commiserating, condolence, condoling, consolation, consoling, sympathy, sympathizing.
2. repentance, remorse, contrition, compunction; regret, self-reproach, self-condemnation.
3. lament, complaint. See lament (defs. 3, 4). lamina, n. 1. cover, covering, covering layer; coat, coating, veneer, overlay, lamella; facing, sheathing, weatherboard, clapboard, shingle, outside paneling, stuccowork, adobe; skin, integument, membrane, Anat., Zool. cortex, pellicle, peel, rind, bark; plate, plating, protective covering, mail, coat of mail, chain mail; crust, incrustation, scab; shell, carapace, marine shell, nutshell, pastry shell, wingcover, elytron.
2. cut, slice, rasher, shave, shaving, curl; leaf, leaflet, sheet, foil, petal, scale, flake. laminate, v. 1. separate, split, Med. desquamate, peel off, exfoliate, flake, flake off.
2. veneer, coat, cover, crust, incrust, overlay, lay over, superimpose, overspread, plate, foliate; face, sheathe, shingle, panel, stucco; stratify, layer.

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