lamentable

comparative more lamentable · superlative most lamentable

1. Causing sorrow, distress or regret; deplorable, pitiful or distressing.

   In what a lamentable caſe were I, If Nature had not giuen me wiſedomes lore?

   c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene iv

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   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.

   1961 February, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Trains Illustrated, page 86

   Synonyms: atrabiliary, atrabilious, deplorable, depressing, distressing, grievous, heartbreaking, heartrending