Deplorable

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
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           Individual sufferers are in a much more deplorable
           conditious than any others.              --Burke.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  139 Moby Thesaurus words for "deplorable":
     abominable, affecting, afflictive, appalling, arrant, atrocious,
     awful, bad, base, beastly, beneath contempt, beneath one, bitter,
     blameworthy, bleak, brutal, calamitous, cheap, cheerless,
     comfortless, contemptible, debasing, degrading, demeaning,
     depressing, depressive, desperate, despicable, detestable,
     difficult, dire, disastrous, discomforting, disgraceful,
     disgusting, dismal, dismaying, disreputable, distressful,
     distressing, disturbing, dolorific, dolorogenic, dolorous,
     dreadful, dreary, egregious, enormous, execrable, fetid, filthy,
     flagrant, foul, fulsome, grave, grievous, gross, gutter, hateful,
     heartbreaking, heartrending, heinous, hopeless, horrible, horrid,
     horrifying, humiliating, humiliative, infamous, infra dig,
     infra indignitatem, intolerable, joyless, lamentable, loathsome,
     lousy, miserable, monstrous, mournful, moving, nasty, nefarious,
     noisome, notorious, obnoxious, odious, offensive, oppressive,
     opprobrious, outrageous, overwhelming, painful, pathetic, piteous,
     pitiable, pitiful, poignant, rank, regrettable, reprehensible,
     repulsive, rotten, rueful, sad, saddening, scandalous, schlock,
     scurvy, serious, shabby, shameful, sharp, shocking, shoddy,
     sickening, sordid, sore, sorrowful, sorry, squalid, terrible,
     too bad, touching, tragic, troubling, unbearable, unbecoming,
     unclean, uncomfortable, unfortunate, unworthy of one, upsetting,
     vile, villainous, woebegone, woeful, worst, worthless, wretched