Synonyms: keen
Definition: a funeral lament sung with loud wailing
Similar words: dirge, coronach, requiem, lament, threnody
Definition: a song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person
Definition: express grief verbally
Usage: we lamented the death of the child
Similar words: express emotion, express feelings
Definition: give verbal or other expression to one's feelings
Synonyms: keen
Definition: having a sharp cutting edge or point
Usage: a keen blade
Similar words: sharp
Definition: having or made by a thin edge or sharp point; suitable for cutting or piercing
Usage: a sharp knife; a pencil with a sharp point
Synonyms: lancinate, lancinating, keen, knifelike, stabbing, cutting, piercing
Definition: painful as if caused by a sharp instrument
Usage: a cutting wind; keen winds; knifelike cold; piercing knifelike pains; piercing cold; piercing criticism; a stabbing pain; lancinating pain
Similar words: sharp
Definition: keenly and painfully felt; as if caused by a sharp edge or point
Usage: a sharp pain; sharp winds
Synonyms: great, groovy, neat, nifty, peachy, not bad, bang-up, keen, bully, dandy, corking, cracking, swell, slap-up, smashing
Definition: very good
Usage: he did a bully job; a neat sports car; had a great time at the party; you look simply smashing
Similar words: good
Definition: having desirable or positive qualities especially those suitable for a thing specified
Usage: good news from the hospital; a good report card; when she was good she was very very good; a good knife is one good for cutting; this stump will make a good picnic table; a good check; a good joke; a good exterior paint; a good secretary; a good dress for the office
Definition: intense or sharp
Usage: suffered exquisite pain; felt exquisite pleasure
Similar words: intense
Definition: possessing or displaying a distinctive feature to a heightened degree
Usage: intense heat; intense anxiety; intense desire; intense emotion; the skunk's intense acrid odor; intense pain; enemy fire was intense
Synonyms: penetrating, penetrative, incisive, discriminating, piercing, acute, keen, knifelike, sharp
Definition: having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions
Usage: an acute observer of politics and politicians; incisive comments; icy knifelike reasoning; as sharp and incisive as the stroke of a fang; penetrating insight; frequent penetrative observations
Similar words: perceptive
Definition: having the ability to perceive or understand; keen in discernment
Usage: a perceptive eye; a perceptive observation