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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (3)

1. bad; unfortunate;
- Example: "my finances were in a deplorable state"
- Example: "a lamentable decision"
- Example: "her clothes were in sad shape"
- Example: "a sorry state of affairs"
[syn: deplorable, distressing, lamentable, pitiful, sad, sorry]

2. of very poor quality or condition;
- Example: "deplorable housing conditions in the inner city"
- Example: "woeful treatment of the accused"
- Example: "woeful errors of judgment"
[syn: deplorable, execrable, miserable, woeful, wretched]

3. bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure;
- Example: "a criminal waste of talent"
- Example: "a deplorable act of violence"
- Example: "adultery is as reprehensible for a husband as for a wife"
[syn: condemnable, criminal, deplorable, reprehensible, vicious]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Deplorable \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.
   [1913 Webster]

         Individual sufferers are in a much more deplorable
         conditious than any others.              --Burke.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

deplorable
    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]
    2: of very poor quality or condition; "deplorable housing
       conditions in the inner city"; "woeful treatment of the
       accused"; "woeful errors of judgment" [syn: deplorable,
       execrable, miserable, woeful, wretched]
    3: 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" [syn:
       condemnable, criminal, deplorable, reprehensible,
       vicious]