deplorable (deplorabl)

[= F. déplorable = Sp. deplorable = Pg. deploravel = It. deplora bile, L. as if * deplorabilis, This was the deplorable condition to which the king was reduced. Lord Clarendon , Great Rebellion. Nothing could be more deplorable than the state even of the ablest men, who at that time depended for subsistence on their writings. Macaulay , Boswell's Johnson. 2. Pitiable; contemptible: as, deplorable nonsense; deplorable stupidity.=Syn. 1. Distre ing, dismal, mournful, melancholy, regrettable. deplorablene (de-plor'a-bl-nes), n. The state of being deplorable; misery; wretchedne ; a miserable state. To discern the sadne and deplorablene of this estate. Hammond, Works, IV. 536. deplorably (de-plora-bli), adv. In a manner to be deplored; lamentably; miserably: as, manners are deplorably corrupt. Metaphysicians consider it deplorably superficial to accept the appearance of things for realities. G. H. Lewes, Probs. of Life and Mind, II. 395.