Lamentable
['læməntəb(ə)l] or ['læməntəbl]
Definition
(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.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Deplorable, to be lamented.[2]. Mournful, wailing.
Typist: Randall
Examples
- I only say to you what the lamentable state of my health obliges me to say to everybody. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- She met Gerty's lamentable eyes, fixed on her in a despairing effort at consolation, and the look brought her to herself. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- The teachers, animated solely by good intentions, had no idea of execution, and a lamentable jumble was the upshot of their kind endeavours. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Hence the lamentable waste in carrying over such expertness as is achieved in dealing with them to the affairs of life beyond the schoolroom. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- I warn you once more that the fever has turned to typhus, and that your treatment is responsible for this lamentable change. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- First, I come to bear my testimony, with profound sorrow, to the lamentable disagreements between Sir Percival and Lady Glyde. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- But at first their exclusiveness is merely to preserve soundness of doctrine and worship, warned by such lamentable lapses as those of King Solomon. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But it shortly became a most lamentable slouch of a journal. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Notwithstanding this lamentable occurrence, the journey was continued to Manchester, and the carriages returned to Liverpool the same evening. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- The lamentable effect of this split upon the solidarity of Christendom it is impossible to exaggerate. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I am told that it is of the last importance to ascertain the exact date of that lamentable journey, and I have anxiously taxed my memory to recall it. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- They would only make the first oppression of this lamentable marriage fall the heavier on her. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The lamentable weakness of the words roused a motion of pity in Lily's breast. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- For various and heinous are the acts of transgression against the rule of our blessed Order in this lamentable history. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
Typist: Randall