lamentable

lamentable
adj
1. regrettable, deplorable, rueful, woeful, woebegone, unfortunate; pitiful, pitiable, piteous, to be pitied; sad, doleful, dolorous, sorrowful, distressing, depressing, mournful, grievous, plaintive; sore, sharp, bitter, painful; comfortless, discomforting, uncomfortable; dreary, cheerless, joyless, dismal, lugubrious; miserable, wretched, abject, squalid, stark.
2.Figurative. insufficient, inadequate, unsatisfactory, unsatisfying; poor, meager, scanty, skimpy, scrimpy, beggarly, niggardly, sorry, slight; paltry, puny, petty, piddling, poky, Inf. measly, Sl. crummy, Sl. lousy, Sl. rotten.

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  • lamentable — [ lamɑ̃tabl ] adj. • XVe; lat. lamentabilis 1 ♦ Vx ou littér. Qui donne sujet de se lamenter, inspire la pitié. ⇒ déplorable, désolant, navrant. Un lamentable accident. « Ces histoires de morts lamentables, tragiques » (Boileau). On l a retrouvé… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • Lamentable — Lam en*ta*ble, a. [L. lamentabilis: cf. F. lamentable.] 1. Mourning; sorrowful; expressing grief; as, a lamentable countenance. [Archaic] Lamentable eye. Spenser. [1913 Webster] 2. Fitted to awaken lament; to be lamented; sorrowful; pitiable;… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • lamentable — adjetivo 1. (antepuesto / pospuesto) Que merece ser lamentado o llorado: Un lamentable accidente se ha producido esta mañana. Una confusión lamentable ha dejado a dos inocentes en la calle. 2. (antepuesto / pospuesto) Que causa mala impresión… …   Diccionario Salamanca de la Lengua Española

  • lamentable — Lamentable. adj. v. de tout genre. Qui merite qu on le regrette, qu on le lamente. Une mort. lamentable. un accident lamentable. Il signifie aussi quelquefois, Douloureux, qui excite à pitié. Il prononça ces paroles d un ton de voix lamentable.… …   Dictionnaire de l'Académie française

  • lamentable — c.1400, from M.Fr. lamentable and directly from L. lamentabilis full of sorrow, mournful, lamentable, from lamentari to lament (see LAMENTATION (Cf. lamentation)). Related: Lamentably …   Etymology dictionary

  • lamentable — (Del lat. lamentabĭlis). 1. adj. Que merece ser lamentado o es digno de llorarse. 2. Dicho del estado o del aspecto de una persona o de una cosa: Estropeado, maltrecho. 3. p. us. Que infunde tristeza y horror. Voz, rostro lamentable …   Diccionario de la lengua española

  • lamentable — I adjective awful, comfortless, deplorable, depressing, depressive, disheartening, dismal, distressful, distressing, doleful, dreadful, flebilis, grave, grievous, horrible, horrid, joyless, lamentabilis, low, lugubrious, melancholy, miserable,… …   Law dictionary

  • lamentable — meaning ‘deplorable, regrettable’, is correctly pronounced with the stress on the first syllable, not the second (though either is acceptable in AmE) …   Modern English usage

  • lamentable — [adj] upsetting, miserable afflictive, awful, bad, calamitous, deplorable, dire, dirty, distressing, doleful, dolorous, god awful, grievous, grim, heartbreaking, hurting, lousy, low, lugubrious, meager, mean, melancholy, mournful, pitiful,… …   New thesaurus

  • lamentable — Lamentable, Lamentabilis …   Thresor de la langue françoyse

  • lamentable — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ deplorable or regrettable. DERIVATIVES lamentably adverb …   English terms dictionary

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