Lam"en*ta*ble (?), a. [L. lamentabilis : cf. F. 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 lamentable misfortune, or error.
"
Lamentable helplessness."
Burke.
3.
Miserable; pitiful; paltry; -- in a contemptuous or idiculous sense.
Bp. Stillingfleet.
-- Lam"en*ta*ble*ness, n. -- Lam"en*ta*bly, adv.
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