Lamentable

//ləˈmɛn.tə.bəl// adj

adj ·Moderate ·High school level

Definitions

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

Synonyms

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distressingabominableaffectingafflictiveaggrievedanguished

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""If any of you survive this fatal night and return to Jamaica tell the admiral that I was in search of the pirate when this lamentable occurrence took place; tell him I hope I have always done my duty, and that I-.""

Etymology

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

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