meaning of lamentable
1. Mourning; sorrowful; expressing grief; as, a lamentable countenance.
2. Fitted to awaken lament; to be lamented; sorrowful; pitiable; as, a lamentable misfortune, or error.
3. Miserable; pitiful; paltry; -- in a contemptuous or ridiculous sense.
4. bad; unfortunate; "my finances were in a deplorable state"; "a lamentable decision"; "her clothes were in sad shape"; "a sorry state of
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