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Lamentable

Lamentable Meaning & Definition
Lamentable Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Lamentable?

[adj] bad; unfortunate; "my finances were in a deplorable state"; "a lamentable decision"; "her clothes were in sad shape"; "a sorry state of affairs"
[adj] an archaic word for mournful; "tell thou the lamentable tale of me, And send the hearers weeping to their beds"- Shakespeare

Synonyms | Synonyms for Lamentable: bad | deplorable | distressing | pitiful | sad | sorrowful | sorry

Related Terms | Find terms related to Lamentable: abominable | affecting | afflictive | aggrieved | anguished | arrant | atrocious | awful | base | beastly | beneath contempt | bitter | blameworthy | bleak | brutal | calamitous | careworn | cheerless | comfortless | contemptible | deplorable | depressing | depressive | despicable | detestable | dire | discomforting | disgusting | dismal | dismaying | distressful | distressing | doleful | dolorific | dolorogenic | dolorous | dreadful | dreary | dumb with grief | egregious | enormous | fetid | filthy | flagrant | foul | fulsome | griefful | grief-stricken | grieved | grievous | gross | hateful | heartbreaking | heinous | horrible | horrid | in grief | infamous | intolerable | joyless | loathsome | lousy | lugubrious | miserable | monstrous | mournful | moving | nasty | nefarious | noisome | notorious | obnoxious | odious | offensive | outrageous | painful | pathetic | piteous | pitiable | pitiful | plaintive | plangent | plunged in grief | poignant | rank | regrettable | reprehensible | repulsive | rotten | rueful | sad | saddening | scandalous | schlock | scurvy | shabby | shameful | sharp | shocking | shoddy | sordid | sore | sorrowed | sorrowful | sorrowing | squalid | tearful | terrible | too bad | touching | unclean | uncomfortable | unfortunate | vile | villainous | woebegone | woeful | worst | worthless | wretched

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Lamentable In Webster's Dictionary

\Lam"en*ta*ble\, a. [L. lamentabilis : cf. F. lamentable.] 1. Mourning; sorrowful; expressing grief; as, a lamentable countenance. ``Lamentable eye.'' --Spenser. 2. Fitted to awaken lament; to be lamented; sorrowful; pitiable; as, a lamentable misfortune, or error. ``Lamentable helplessness.'' --Burke. 3. Miserable; pitiful; paltry; -- in a contemptuous or ridiculous sense. --Bp. Stillingfleet. -- {Lam"en*ta*ble*ness}, n. -- {Lam"en*ta*bly}, adv.

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