Meaning of DEPLORABLE
| Pronunciation: | | di'plowrubul
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- [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] bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure; "a criminal waste of talent"; "a deplorable act of violence"; "adultery is as reprehensible for a husband as for a wife"
- [adj] of very poor quality or condition; "deplorable housing conditions in the inner city"; "woeful treatment of the accused"; "woeful errors of judgment"
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| | Synonyms: | | bad, condemnable, criminal, distressing, execrable, inferior, lamentable, miserable, pitiful, reprehensible, sad, sorry, woeful, wretched, wrong |
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| | Definition: | | \De*plor"a*ble\, a. [Cf. F. d['e]plorable.]
Worthy of being deplored or lamented; lamentable; causing
grief; hence, sad; calamitous; grievous; wretched; as, life's
evils are deplorable.
Individual sufferers are in a much more deplorable
conditious than any others. --Burke.
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| | Related Terms: | | abominable, affecting, afflictive, appalling, arrant, atrocious, awful, bad, base, beastly, beneath contempt, beneath one, bitter, blameworthy, bleak, brutal, calamitous, cheap, cheerless, comfortless, contemptible, debasing, degrading, demeaning, depressing, depressive, desperate, despicable, detestable, difficult, dire, disastrous, discomforting, disgraceful, disgusting, dismal, dismaying, disreputable, distressful, distressing, disturbing, dolorific, dolorogenic, dolorous, dreadful, dreary, egregious, enormous, execrable, fetid, filthy, flagrant, foul, fulsome, grave, grievous, gross, gutter, hateful, heartbreaking, heartrending, heinous, hopeless, horrible, horrid, horrifying, humiliating, humiliative, infamous, infra dig, infra indignitatem, intolerable, joyless, lamentable, loathsome, lousy, miserable, monstrous, mournful, moving, nasty, nefarious, noisome, notorious, obnoxious, odious, offensive, oppressive, opprobrious, outrageous, overwhelming, painful, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poignant, rank, regrettable, reprehensible, repulsive, rotten, rueful, sad, saddening, scandalous, schlock, scurvy, serious, shabby, shameful, sharp, shocking, shoddy, sickening, sordid, sore, sorrowful, sorry, squalid, terrible, too bad, touching, tragic, troubling, unbearable, unbecoming, unclean, uncomfortable, unfortunate, unworthy of one, upsetting, vile, villainous, woebegone, woeful, worst, worthless, wretched |
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