lamentable

adj

Etymology: From Middle English lamentable, from Middle French lamentable, from Latin lāmentābilis (“full of sorrow, mournful; deplorable”), from lāmentor (“lament”), from lāmenta (“wailing, weeping”). By surface analysis, lament + -able.

1. Causing sorrow, distress or regret; deplorable, pitiful or distressing.

   “In what a lamentable caſe were I, If Nature had not giuen me wiſedomes lore?”

   “Moreover, in view of the lamentable present indecision of the Government in regard to electrification, the large-scale building of diesel power may prove to have been a farseeing move after all.”