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unlamented

unlamented

1 8.9
People do not miss or mourn someone when they are gone
  • adjective
  • /ˌʌnˈlæmɛntɪd/
translation icon : no llorado
  • The unsuccessful project ended in an unlamented closure, leaving no one to mourn its failure.
  • the late, unlamented

Examples

  • And Abstract Comics editor Andrei Molotiu posted a lengthy remembrance of his own experiences with this site's late (and apparently not entirely unlamented) message board.

    Blog text (13)
  • Her departure was mostly unlamented, as few noticed her absence in the team.

  • The late and unlamented Factor Wall, who had in fact been the real power behind the Confed's puppet president during the final days before the end.

    Fiction book (1991)
  • In fact, they were beyond any of the surrounding cities that had the dubious pleasure of lying on the borders of the late, unlamented King Radj Hoomas' territory.

    Fiction book (2002)
  • Bin Laden is dead; what few remnant grouplets survive are on the run, and the unlamented "global war on terror" is as dead as the Bush administration.

    Blog text (17)
  • The Post interview marked perhaps the lowest point he reached in the decade, but it fixed his image as a washed-up, self-pitying writer, a miserable caretaker of his talent, the relic of a distant and unlamented era.

    Academic text (2000)
  • African Arts was born in the days of the unlamented "ethnographic present" and widespread (and erroneous) beliefs that, as African art was in 1960, so was it forty or sixty years earlier, and so would it probably be forty years hence.

    Academic text (2007)
  • Maria Luigia, our unlamented duchess, will live on, whether in Parma or Vienna, until the day when she joins Professor Hegel in some unspecified empyrean that can only be conceived as a further synthesis.

    Fiction book (2000)
  • During this same week, the Reverend Jerry Falwell, one of the founders of the late, unlamented Moral Majority movement (which some of us recognized as the Immoral Minority), published in the National Liberty Journal an article entitled "Tinky Winky Comes Out of the Closet."

    Academic text (1999)
  • Many people felt that the unlamented leader had done more harm than good during his time in office.

Synonyms

unmourned
vsunlamented
1 9.9

Not missed or felt sad about by people after death

is the same in meaning but uses a different root word
unwept
vsunlamented
  • Archaic
9.9

Not cried for or missed after someone dies

emphasizes absence of sorrow or mourning rather than just lack of tears
uncried
vsunlamented
9.4

Tears that someone feels but does not shed

focuses on lack of mourning or sorrow rather than absence of tears

Antonyms

lamented
  • Formal
7.0

Deeply missed after death or loss and spoken of with sadness

How Mourned

lamented
  • Formal
7.0
unlamented
1 8.9
unremembered
1 8.1

Surface Forms

unlamented positive

Morphology

unlamented = lamented (transparent) = un + lament + ed

Clear negation of the past-participle/adjective 'lamented' (not mourned), following regular English word-formation.

Etymology

Unlamented breaks into un- 'not' and lament 'to mourn', where lament is the act of showing sadness for someone who is gone. So unlamented means 'not mourned' or not missed when someone leaves or dies.