Lamentable
adjective
Very sad and causing sorrow.
She slowly told us the lamentable news of their breakup.
Often appears as...
- lamentable loss
- lamentable event
adjective
Suggesting something bad or not good enough.
His utterly lamentable performance confirmed in her mind that he was not right for the job.
Often appears as...
- lamentable failure
- lamentable condition
Usage tips
Disapproving
adjective
Very sad and causing sorrow.
She slowly told us the lamentable news of their breakup.
Often appears as...
- lamentable loss
- lamentable event
adjective
Suggesting something bad or not good enough.
His utterly lamentable performance confirmed in her mind that he was not right for the job.
Often appears as...
- lamentable failure
- lamentable condition
Usage tips
Disapproving
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Pro Tip 1/3Expressing Sadness
Use 'lamentable' to show strong feelings of sadness or sorrow, especially for something that cannot be reversed.
The community's lamentable loss of its historical library touched everyone's hearts.
Pro Tip 2/3Not for Minor Issues
'Lamentable' is used for serious matters, not trivial disappointments like bad weather or missing a bus.
The famine's effects on the population were truly lamentable.
Pro Tip 3/3Literary Use
Common in literature to evoke emotions, 'lamentable' can describe tragic characters or events.
The play's lamentable hero met his doom with dignity.
Compare with
deplorabledistressmournfulpitifulregrettablesorrowfulunfortunatewoeful
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Video examples
History’s deadliest...
Unfortunately, radium isn't the only pigment that historically seemed harmless or useful but turned out to be deadly. That lamentable distinction includes a trio of colors and pigments that we've long used to decorate ourselves and the things we white, green,
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Safari Live - Day 384 PIPE...
I have the lamentable fellows Andre and he has got a camera and he is producing these beautiful pictures and so we're in a wildlife area and then down south where you've seen the leopard and the Lions there in the greater Kruger
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History’s deadliest...
Unfortunately, radium isn't the only pigment that historically seemed harmless or useful but turned out to be deadly. That lamentable distinction includes a trio of colors and pigments that we've long used to decorate ourselves and the things we white, green,
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 384 PIPE...
I have the lamentable fellows Andre and he has got a camera and he is producing these beautiful pictures and so we're in a wildlife area and then down south where you've seen the leopard and the Lions there in the greater Kruger
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Quote examples
Edward Blake
Canadian Politician
The accumulation of personal wealth and the extension of commercial transactions have developed a great and lamentable increase in certain classes of crimes, while the improvements in transport have largely facilitated the escape of fugitive criminals.
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Douglas Hurd
British Politician
Despite this lamentable lack of balance in our education I do not believe that either children or adults in my country are permeated by a widespread hostility to Germany.
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Richard Dawkins
English Scientist
It is a lamentable observation that because of the way our laws are skewed toward the plaintiff, London has become the libel capital of the world.
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Albert II, Prince of Monaco
Monacan Royalty
I have always respected the freedom of expression. But the dissemination of false information is lamentable and subject to criminal penalties.
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Charles Caleb Colton
English Writer
To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.
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Charles Kennedy
British Politician
Politics is much too serious to be taken too seriously; equally, there are many aspects of it so laughable as to be lamentable.
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George Santayana
Spanish Philosopher
Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
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Charles Hermite
French Mathematician
I turn aside with a shudder of horror from this lamentable plague of functions which have no derivatives.
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Voltaire
French Writer
It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.
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Juan Pablo Montoya
Colombian Driver
I'm busy, man, too busy. There's a lamentable absence of free time.
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Edward Blake
Canadian Politician
The accumulation of personal wealth and the extension of commercial transactions have developed a great and lamentable increase in certain classes of crimes, while the improvements in transport have largely facilitated the escape of fugitive criminals.
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Douglas Hurd
British Politician
Despite this lamentable lack of balance in our education I do not believe that either children or adults in my country are permeated by a widespread hostility to Germany.
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Richard Dawkins
English Scientist
It is a lamentable observation that because of the way our laws are skewed toward the plaintiff, London has become the libel capital of the world.
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Albert II, Prince of Monaco
Monacan Royalty
I have always respected the freedom of expression. But the dissemination of false information is lamentable and subject to criminal penalties.
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Charles Caleb Colton
English Writer
To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.
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Charles Kennedy
British Politician
Politics is much too serious to be taken too seriously; equally, there are many aspects of it so laughable as to be lamentable.
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George Santayana
Spanish Philosopher
Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
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Charles Hermite
French Mathematician
I turn aside with a shudder of horror from this lamentable plague of functions which have no derivatives.
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Voltaire
French Writer
It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.
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Juan Pablo Montoya
Colombian Driver
I'm busy, man, too busy. There's a lamentable absence of free time.
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