Usually means: Regrettable, deserving sorrow or grief.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word lamentable:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. lamentable: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. lamentable: Merriam-Webster
  3. lamentable: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. lamentable: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. lamentable: Collins English Dictionary
  6. lamentable: Vocabulary.com
  7. Lamentable, lamentable: Wordnik
  8. lamentable: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. lamentable: Wiktionary
  10. lamentable: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. lamentable: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Lamentable, lamentable: Dictionary.com
  13. lamentable: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Lamentable: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. lamentable: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. lamentable: Rhymezone
  17. Lamentable: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. lamentable: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. lamentable: FreeDictionary.org
  20. lamentable: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. lamentable: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. lamentable: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lamentable: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lamentable: Encyclopedia

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ adjective:  Causing sorrow, distress or regret; deplorable, pitiful or distressing.

Similar:
pitiful, deplorable, sad, distressing, sorrowful, bad, sorry, woeful, lamentacious, lamentful, more...

Opposite:
commendable, praiseworthy, admirable

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Similar:
pitiful, deplorable, sad, distressing, sorrowful, bad, sorry, woeful, lamentacious, lamentful, more...

Opposite:
commendable, praiseworthy, admirable

Colors:
    gray,     black,     dark blue,     charcoal,     midnight blue, more...



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