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English Dictionary: deplorable	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for deplorable
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
deplorable adj bad; unfortunate; "my finances were in a deplorable state"; "a lamentable decision"; "her clothes were in sad shape"; "a sorry state of affairs" Synonym(s): deplorable, distressing, lamentable, pitiful, sad, sorry of very poor quality or condition; "deplorable housing conditions in the inner city"; "woeful treatment of the accused"; "woeful errors of judgment" Synonym(s): deplorable, execrable, miserable, woeful, wretched 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" Synonym(s): condemnable, criminal, deplorable, reprehensible, vicious
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Deplorable \Deplor"able\, a. [Cf. F. d[82]plorable.] Worthy of being deplored or lamented; lamentable; causing grief; hence, sad; calamitous; grievous; wretched; as, life's evils are deplorable. Individual sufferers are in a much more deplorable conditious than any others. --Burke.