lamentable
/ləˈmɛn.tə.bəl/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.47 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Causing sorrow, distress or regret; deplorable, pitiful or distressing.
Example Sentences
- "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."
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.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: lamentable, lāmentābilis
Inflected Forms
more lamentable (comparative)
most lamentable (superlative)