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[syn: deplorable, distressing, lamentable, pitiful, sad, sorry]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Lamentable \Lam"en*ta*ble\, a. [L. lamentabilis: cf. F.
lamentable.]
1. Mourning; sorrowful; expressing grief; as, a lamentable
countenance. [Archaic] "Lamentable eye." --Spenser.
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2. Fitted to awaken lament; to be lamented; sorrowful;
pitiable; regrettable; unfortunate; as, a lamentable
misfortune, or error. "Lamentable helplessness." --Burke.
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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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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
lamentable
adj 1: bad; unfortunate; "my finances were in a deplorable
state"; "a lamentable decision"; "her clothes were in sad
shape"; "a sorry state of affairs" [syn: deplorable,
distressing, lamentable, pitiful, sad, sorry]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
120 Moby Thesaurus words for "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,
grief-stricken, griefful, 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