lamentable Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite bad; unfortunate
    distressing; sad; pitiful; deplorable; sorry.
    • my finances were in a deplorable state
    • a lamentable decision
    • her clothes were in sad shape
    • a sorry state of affairs

WordNet


Lam"en*ta*ble adjective
Etymology
L. lamentabilis : cf. F. lamentable.
Definitions
  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 idiculous sense. Bp. Stillingfleet. -- Lam"en*ta*ble*ness, n. -- Lam"en*ta*bly, adv.

Webster 1913