lamentable

lamentable
    adj 1: 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}]
    

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