jeremiad
UK/ˌd͡ʒɛɹ.əˈmaɪ.əd/
jeremiad noun: a long speech or prose work that bitterly laments the state of society and its morals, and often contains a prophecy of its coming downfall.
Noun
jeremiad (plural jeremiads)
- A long speech or prose work that bitterly laments the state of society and its morals, and often contains a prophecy of its coming downfall.
- Near-synonyms: diatribe, tirade, lamentation, lament, litany; see also Thesaurus:diatribe
- "Father Maguire," he said in the broadest of Cork brogues, without the ghost of a smile on his grave Irish face, "is it a song yez wantin'? Well, thin, it's just a jeremiad I 'd be singin' yez, an' not another song at all, at all."1895, Mary Gaunt, The Moving Finger: A Digger's Christmas
- Synonyms:
- diatribe, tirade, lamentation, lament, litany, admonition, condemnation, dithyramb, harangue, impugnation
jeremiad meaning in Urdu and Bengali
jeremiad in Urdu
- آہ و زاری, بین, بپتا, دکھڑا, نوحہ, سوگ
jeremiad in Bengali
- দীর্ঘ শোককাহিনী, কষ্ট ও দুর্ভাগ্যের বর্ণনা
Examples of jeremiad in a sentence
- “This is precisely the manner of Balkanization that Schlesinger cautioned us about in his prescient jeremiad on multiculturalism, “The Disuniting of America.””2006 May 5, The Columbus Dispatch:
- Cannes is smacking its lips in anticipation of filmmaker and provocateur Michael Moore's latest jeremiad against the US administration, which receives its premiere at the film festival today.2007 May 19, Charlotte Higgins, “US government trying to seize new Michael Moore film, says producer”, in The Guardian, archived from the...
- His warnings ignored in Washington, Dalio issued more jeremiads to his clients.2011 July 18, John Cassidy, “Mastering the Machine”, in The New Yorker, →ISSN, archived from the original on 05 Mar 2019:
- What few of us realised at the time was that Osborne, while endorsing most of Jimmy’s jeremiads, also had a sneaking sympathy for his father-in-law, Colonel Redfern, an upper-class relic of the Raj.2015 March 30, Michael Billington, “Look Back in Anger: how John Osborne liberated theatrical language”, in The Guardian, archived from the...
Synonyms of jeremiad
Forms of jeremiad
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Origin of jeremiad
From French jérémiade, from Jérémie, from Latin Ieremias, from Hebrew ירמיה (yirm'yá, “Jeremiah”). Named after biblical prophet Jeremiah, who lamented the moral state of Judah and predicted her downfall.
Words that rhyme with jeremiad
Questions about jeremiad
- What does jeremiad mean?
- Jeremiad means a long speech or prose work that bitterly laments the state of society and its morals, and often contains a prophecy of its coming downfall.
- What is jeremiad in Urdu?
- Jeremiad in Urdu is آہ و زاری, بین, بپتا. See Jeremiad meaning in Urdu.
- How do you use jeremiad in a sentence?
- “This is precisely the manner of Balkanization that Schlesinger cautioned us about in his prescient jeremiad on multiculturalism, “The Disuniting of America.””
- What part of speech is jeremiad?
- Jeremiad is a noun.
- How do you pronounce jeremiad?
- Jeremiad is pronounced /ˌd͡ʒɛɹ.əˈmaɪ.əd/ (UK).
- What is the plural of jeremiad?
- The plural of jeremiad is jeremiads.
Words near jeremiad in the dictionary
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