lamentable
English
Etymology
From Middle French lamentable, from Latin lāmentābilis (“full of sorrow, mournful; deplorable”), from lāmentor (“lament”), from lāmenta (“wailing, weeping”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ləˈmɛn.tə.bəl/, /ˈlæm.ən.tə.bəl/
Audio (US) (file)
Adjective
lamentable (comparative more lamentable, superlative most lamentable)
- Causing sorrow, distress or regret; deplorable, pitiful or distressing.
- c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], part 1, 2nd edition, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, OCLC 932920499; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene iv:
- In what a lamentable caſe were I,
If Nature had not giuen me wiſedomes lore?
- 1961 February, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Trains Illustrated, page 86:
- Moreover, in view of the lamentable present indecision of the Government in regard to electrification, the large-scale building of diesel power may prove to have been a farseeing move after all.
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Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:lamentable
Derived terms
- lamentability
- lamentableness
- lamentably
Related terms
- lament
Translations
deplorable
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Catalan
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central) IPA(key): /lə.mənˈta.blə/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /la.menˈta.ble/
Adjective
lamentable (masculine and feminine plural lamentables)
- lamentable, regrettable
Derived terms
- lamentablement
Related terms
- lamentar
Further reading
- “lamentable” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
French
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin lāmentābilis (“full of sorrow, mournful; deplorable”), from lāmentor (“lament”), from lāmenta (“wailing, weeping”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /la.mɑ̃.tabl/
Audio (file) - Homophone: lamentables
- Rhymes: -abl
Adjective
lamentable (plural lamentables)
- lamentable; awful; deplorable
- Synonyms: déplorable, pitoyable, minable
Derived terms
- lamentablement
Related terms
- lamenter
Further reading
- “lamentable”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin lāmentābilis (“full of sorrow, mournful; deplorable”), from lāmentor (“lament”), from lāmenta (“wailing, weeping”). Cognate with English lamentable.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lamenˈtable/ [la.mẽn̪ˈt̪a.β̞le]
- Rhymes: -able
- Syllabification: la‧men‧ta‧ble
Adjective
lamentable (plural lamentables)
- lamentable, regrettable
- 2001, Julio Montes Ponce de León, Medio ambiente y desarrollo sostenido, Univ Pontifica Comillas →ISBN, page 64
- Es lamentable el trato que sufren con frecuencia los árboles recién plantados en las proximidades de los colegios.
- The treatment that newly planted trees in the vicinity of schools often suffer is lamentable.
- 2001, Julio Montes Ponce de León, Medio ambiente y desarrollo sostenido, Univ Pontifica Comillas →ISBN, page 64
Derived terms
- lamentablemente
Related terms
- lamentar (see for more terms)
Further reading
- “lamentable”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014