Adjective: lamentable
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more lamentable |
| Superlative | most lamentable |
Sample Sentences
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In what a lamentable caſe were I,
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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:]
Adjectives inflected like lamentable
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From Middle English lamentable, from Middle French lamentable, from Latin lāmentābilis (“full of sorrow, mournful; deplorable”), from lāmentor (“lament”), from lāmenta (“wailing, weeping”). By surface analysis, lament + -able. See: Latin Adjectives '
lāmentābilis'.
Verbs referencing "lamentable"
Spanish Adjectives
lamentable.