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LAMENTABLE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does lamentable mean?
• LAMENTABLE (adjective)
The adjective LAMENTABLE has 1 sense:
1. bad; unfortunate
Familiarity information: LAMENTABLE used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Bad; unfortunate
Synonyms:
deplorable; distressing; lamentable; pitiful; sad; sorry
Context example:
a sorry state of affairs
Similar:
bad (having undesirable or negative qualities)
Derivation:
lament (regret strongly)
Context examples
Afar, it offered a pale blank of mist and cloud; near a scene of wet lawn and storm-beat shrub, with ceaseless rain sweeping away wildly before a long and lamentable blast.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Each of these would furnish a narrative, but on the whole I am of opinion that none of them unites so many singular points of interest as the episode of Yoxley Old Place, which includes not only the lamentable death of young Willoughby Smith, but also those subsequent developments which threw so curious a light upon the causes of the crime.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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