lamentable

[LamĀ·en*ta*ble]

Miserable; pitiful; paltry; -- in a contemptuous or ridiculous sense.

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Mourning; sorrowful; expressing grief; as, a lamentable countenance.

Adjective S.
bad; unfortunate; "my finances were in a deplorable state"; "a lamentable decision"; "her clothes were in sad shape"; "a sorry state of affairs"

Adjective S.
an archaic word for mournful; "tell thou the lamentable tale of me, And send the hearers weeping to their beds"- Shakespeare


a.
Mourning; sorrowful; expressing grief; as, a lamentable countenance.

a.
Fitted to awaken lament; to be lamented; sorrowful; pitiable; as, a lamentable misfortune, or error.

a.
Miserable; pitiful; paltry; -- in a contemptuous or ridiculous sense.


Lamentable

Lam"en*ta*ble , a. [L. lamentabilis : cf. F. lamentable.] 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.

Mourning; sorrowful; expressing grief; as, a lamentable countenance.

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Usage Examples

Happiness is the only sanction of life where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

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Other Usage Examples

To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.

Politics is much too serious to be taken too seriously equally, there are many aspects of it so laughable as to be lamentable.

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