Hypertext Webster Gateway: "deplorable"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
Individual sufferers are in a much more deplorable
conditious than any others. --Burke.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
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}]
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