• (a.) Mourning; sorrowful; expressing grief; as, a lamentable countenance. • (a.) Fitted to awaken lament; to be lamented; sorrowful; pitiable; as, a lamentable misfortune, or error. • (a.) Miserable; pitiful; paltry; -- in a contemptuous or ridiculous sense. Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning/lamentable/
Lam'en·ta·ble adjective [ Latin lamentabilis : confer French lamentable .] 1. Mourning; sorrowful; expressing grief; as, a lamentable countenance. ' Lamentable eye.' Spenser. 2. Fitted to awaken lament; to be lamented; sorrowful; pitiable; as, a Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/L/8