Synonyms for lamentable
- adjective
Most common
pitiful deplorable distressing piteous heart-breaking heart-rending
All synonyms
Adjective
1. Deplorable — causing sorrow, distress or regret; deplorable, pitiful or distressing
deplorable, pitiful, sad, distressing, grievous, piteous, regrettable, woeful, wretched, sorrowful, mournful, pitiable, tragic, saddening, depressing, unhappy, sorry, rueful, woebegone, infelicitous, atrabilious, atrabiliary
Other
Definitions
- adj. 1
Causing sorrow, distress or regret; deplorable, pitiful or distressing.
Related words
- Is a kind of
- moving unpleasant
Example sentences
- pitiful The pitiful tale fetched tears from the girl.
- deplorable The roads of this city are in deplorable condition.
- distressing Yanni went through a distressing event.
- piteous He looked piteous, like a drowned mouse.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| lamentable | falling | |
| pitiful | rising | |
| deplorable | falling | |
| distressing | steady | |
| piteous | rising |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 3 letters
- sad1
- 5 letters
- sorry2
- 6 letters
- tragic2, woeful2, rueful2
- 7 letters
- unhappy3, pitiful3, piteous
- 8 letters
- wretched2, grievous2, mournful2, pitiable4
- 9 letters
- sorrowful3, saddening3, woebegone3
- 10 letters
- depressing3, deplorable4
- 11 letters
- distressing3, regrettable4, atrabilious, atrabiliary
- 12 letters
- infelicitous, lamentacious
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (sorry2 = 2 syllables).