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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Lamentable \Lam"en*ta*ble\, adjective [L. lamentabilis: cf. F. lamentable.]
1. Mourning; sorrowful; expressing grief; as, a lamentable countenance. [Archaic] ''Lamentable eye.'' --Spenser.
2. Fitted to awaken lament; to be lamented; sorrowful; pitiable; regrettable; unfortunate; as, a lamentable misfortune, or error. ''Lamentable helplessness.'' --Burke.
3. Miserable; pitiful; paltry; -- in a contemptuous or ridiculous sense. --Bp. Stillingfleet. -- {Lam"en*ta*ble*ness}, noun -- {Lam"en*ta*bly}, adverb
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
lamentable
adjective
1: an archaic word for mournful; "tell thou the lamentable tale of me, And send the hearers weeping to their beds"- Shakespeare
2: bad; unfortunate; "my finances were in a deplorable state"; "a lamentable decision"; "her clothes were in sad shape"; "a sorry state of affairs" [syn: {deplorable}, {distressing}, {pitiful}, {sad}, {sorry}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
120 Moby Thesaurus words for "lamentable": abominable, affecting, afflictive, aggrieved, anguished, arrant, atrocious, awful, base, beastly, beneath contempt, bitter, blameworthy, bleak, brutal, calamitous, careworn, cheerless, comfortless, contemptible, deplorable, depressing, depressive, despicable, detestable, dire, discomforting, disgusting, dismal, dismaying, distressful, distressing, doleful, dolorific, dolorogenic, dolorous, dreadful, dreary, dumb with grief, egregious, enormous, fetid, filthy, flagrant, foul, fulsome, grief-stricken, griefful, grieved, grievous, gross, hateful, heartbreaking, heinous, horrible, horrid, in grief, infamous, intolerable, joyless, loathsome, lousy, lugubrious, miserable, monstrous, mournful, moving, nasty, nefarious, noisome, notorious, obnoxious, odious, offensive, outrageous, painful, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, plaintive, plangent, plunged in grief, poignant, rank, regrettable, reprehensible, repulsive, rotten, rueful, sad, saddening, scandalous, schlock, scurvy, shabby, shameful, sharp, shocking, shoddy, sordid, sore, sorrowed, sorrowful, sorrowing, squalid, tearful, terrible, too bad, touching, unclean, uncomfortable, unfortunate, vile, villainous, woebegone, woeful, worst, worthless, wretched
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