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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DEPLORABLE, a.
1. That may be deplored or lamented; lamentable; that demands or causes lamentation; hence, sad; calamitous; grievous; miserable; wretched; as, the evils of life are deplorable; the Pagan world is in a deplorable condition.
Deplorate, in a like sense, is not used.
2. In popular use, low; contemptible; pitiable; as deplorable stupidity.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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: deplorable, 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: deplorable, 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, deplorable, reprehensible, vicious]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1612 1. lamentable <a deplorable death> 2. deserving censure or contempt ; wretched <deplorable living conditions> • deplorableness noun • deplorably adverb

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 exceedingly bad (a deplorable meal). 2 that can be deplored. Derivatives: deplorably adv.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If you say that something is deplorable, you think that it is very bad and unacceptable. (FORMAL) Many of them live under deplorable conditions... = appalling ADJ • deplorably The reporters behaved deplorably. ADV: ADV after v, ADV adj

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Lamentable, pitiable, sad, calamitous, grievous, miserable, wretched, distressing, mournful, melancholy, to be deplored.

Moby Thesaurus

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