Deplorable \De*plor"a*ble\, a. [Cf. F. d['e]plorable.]
Worthy of being deplored or lamented; lamentable; causing
grief; hence, sad; calamitous; grievous; wretched; as, life's
evils are deplorable.
[1913 Webster]
Individual sufferers are in a much more deplorable
conditious than any others. --Burke.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
deplorable
adj 1: bad; unfortunate; "my finances were in a deplorable state";
"a lamentable decision"; "her clothes were in sad
shape"; "a sorry state of affairs" [syn: distressing,
lamentable, pitiful, sad, sorry]
2: of very poor quality or condition; "deplorable housing
conditions in the inner city"; "woeful treatment of the
accused"; "woeful errors of judgment" [syn: execrable, miserable,
woeful, wretched]
3: bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure; "a criminal
waste of talent"; "a deplorable act of violence";
"adultery is as reprehensible for a husband as for a wife"
[syn: condemnable, criminal, reprehensible]
WordNet (r) 2.0
139 Moby Thesaurus words for "deplorable":
abominable, affecting, afflictive, appalling, arrant, atrocious,
awful, bad, base, beastly, beneath contempt, beneath one, bitter,
blameworthy, bleak, brutal, calamitous, cheap, cheerless,
comfortless, contemptible, debasing, degrading, demeaning,
depressing, depressive, desperate, despicable, detestable,
difficult, dire, disastrous, discomforting, disgraceful,
disgusting, dismal, dismaying, disreputable, distressful,
distressing, disturbing, dolorific, dolorogenic, dolorous,
dreadful, dreary, egregious, enormous, execrable, fetid, filthy,
flagrant, foul, fulsome, grave, grievous, gross, gutter, hateful,
heartbreaking, heartrending, heinous, hopeless, horrible, horrid,
horrifying, humiliating, humiliative, infamous, infra dig,
infra indignitatem, intolerable, joyless, lamentable, loathsome,
lousy, miserable, monstrous, mournful, moving, nasty, nefarious,
noisome, notorious, obnoxious, odious, offensive, oppressive,
opprobrious, outrageous, overwhelming, painful, pathetic, piteous,
pitiable, pitiful, poignant, rank, regrettable, reprehensible,
repulsive, rotten, rueful, sad, saddening, scandalous, schlock,
scurvy, serious, shabby, shameful, sharp, shocking, shoddy,
sickening, sordid, sore, sorrowful, sorry, squalid, terrible,
too bad, touching, tragic, troubling, unbearable, unbecoming,
unclean, uncomfortable, unfortunate, unworthy of one, upsetting,
vile, villainous, woebegone, woeful, worst, worthless, wretched
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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