'Deplorable' definitions:
Definition of 'deplorable'
(from WordNet)
adjective
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]
adjective
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]
adjective
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]
Definition of 'Deplorable'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'deplorable'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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