[ləˈmɛntəbl], (Adjective)

Definitions:
- (of circumstances or conditions) very bad; deplorable
(e.g: the industry is in a lamentable state)

- full of or expressing sorrow or grief
(e.g: the lamentable friends, trailing their long black garments)


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Origin:
late Middle English (in the sense ‘mournful’, also ‘pitiable, regrettable’): from Old French, or from Latin lamentabilis, from the verb lamentari (see lament)