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lamentable

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10 lettersPronunciation /ləˈmɛn.tə.bəl/Part of speech adjectiveSorted aabeellmntStarts with LEnds with E0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. bad; unfortunate

Word origin

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.

Used in a sentence

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