Meaning of LAMENTABLE
| Pronunciation: | | 'lamuntubul
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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] an archaic word for mournful; "tell thou the lamentable tale of me, And send the hearers weeping to their beds"- Shakespeare
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| | Synonyms: | | bad, deplorable, distressing, pitiful, sad, sorrowful, sorry |
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| | Definition: | | \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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| | Related Terms: | | 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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