'Lamentable' definitions:
Definition of 'lamentable'
(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]
Definition of 'Lamentable'
From: GCIDE
- Lamentable \Lam"en*ta*ble\, a. [L. lamentabilis: cf. F. lamentable.]
- 1. Mourning; sorrowful; expressing grief; as, a lamentable countenance. [Archaic] "Lamentable eye." --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Fitted to awaken lament; to be lamented; sorrowful; pitiable; regrettable; unfortunate; as, a lamentable misfortune, or error. "Lamentable helplessness." --Burke. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Miserable; pitiful; paltry; -- in a contemptuous or ridiculous sense. --Bp. Stillingfleet. -- {Lam"en*ta*ble*ness}, n. -- {Lam"en*ta*bly}, adv. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'lamentable'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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