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Webster 1913 Edition
Deplorable
De-plor′a-ble
,Adj.
[Cf. F.
déplorable
.] 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.
Webster 1828 Edition
Deplorable
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.