(biblical) Abbreviation of Jeremiah.

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.

A male given name from Hebrew, English form of Jeremiah. Also used to anglicize Irish Diarmaid (Dermot).

(Abrahamic religions) An ancient prophet, the author of the Book of Jeremiah, and of the Lamentations. / (biblical) A book of the Old Testament of Bible, and of the Tanakh.

A person who is pessimistic about the present and foresees a calamitous future; a prophet of doom.

(UK) Expression of surprise, contempt, outrage, disgust, boredom, frustration, etc.

(biblical) New Testament name for the prophet Jeremiah. / A male given name from Hebrew, more common in the forms Jeremy and Jeremiah.

plural of jeremiad

(nonce word) Like Jeremy Taylor or his prose style; solemn, elaborate, ornate.

(mineralogy) A hexagonal-dipyramidal mineral containing aluminum, boron, fluorine, hydrogen, and oxygen.