[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

lamentable \lam"entable\, 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; regrettable; unfortunate; as, a lamentable
      misfortune, or error. "lamentable helplessness." --burke.
      1913 webster

   3. miserable; pitiful; paltry; -- in a contemptuous or
      ridiculous sense. --bp. stillingfleet. --
      lam"entableness, n. -- lam"entably, adv.
      1913 webster
see also:
lam"entableness lam"entably 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

lamentable
     adj 1: an archaic word for mournful; "tell thou the lamentable tale
            of me, and send the hearers weeping to their beds"-
            shakespeare
     2: 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,
         pitiful, sad, sorry
see also:
deplorable distressing pitiful sad sorry 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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

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