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Lamentable

//ləˈmɛn.tə.bəl// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Causing sorrow, distress or regret; deplorable, pitiful or distressing.

    "In what a lamentable caſe were I, If Nature had not giuen me wiſedomes lore?"

Adjective
  1. 1
    bad; unfortunate wordnet

Etymology

From Middle French lamentable, from Latin lāmentābilis (“full of sorrow, mournful; deplorable”), from lāmentor (“lament”), from lāmenta (“wailing, weeping”).

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