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Word Meanings - LAMENTABLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

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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 Bp. Stillingfleet. -- Lam"en*ta*ble*ness, n. -- Lam"en*ta*bly, adv.

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  • HURTFUL
    Tending to impair or damage; injurious; mischievous; occasioning loss or injury; as, hurtful words or conduct. Syn. -- Pernicious; harmful; baneful; prejudicial; detrimental; disadvantageous; mischievous; injurious; noxious; unwholesome;
  • AFFECTATIONIST
    One who exhibits affectation. Fitzed. Hall.
  • MOURNFUL
    Full of sorrow; expressing, or intended to express, sorrow; mourning; grieving; sad; also, causing sorrow; saddening; grievous; as, a mournful person; mournful looks, tones, loss. -- Mourn"ful*ly, adv. -- Mourn"ful*ness, n. Syn. -- Sorrowful;
  • MISERABLENESS
    The state or quality of being miserable.
  • AFFLICTIVELY
    In an afflictive manner.
  • MISERABLE
    1. Very unhappy; wretched. What hopes delude thee, miserable man Dryden. 2. Causing unhappiness or misery. What 's more miserable than discontent Shak. 3. Worthless; mean; despicable; as, a miserable fellow; a miserable dinner. Miserable comforters
  • AFFECTION
    Disease; morbid symptom; malady; as, a pulmonary affection. Dunglison. 7. The lively representation of any emotion. Wotton. 8. Affectation. "Spruce affection." Shak. 9. Passion; violent emotion. Most wretched man, That to affections
  • AFFLICTIVE
    Giving pain; causing continued or repeated pain or grief; distressing. "Jove's afflictive hand." Pope. Spreads slow disease, and darts afflictive pain. Prior.
  • AFFECTIBILITY
    The quality or state of being affectible.
  • AFFECTIVELY
    In an affective manner; impressively; emotionally.
  • AFFECTIONED
    1. Disposed. Be kindly affectioned one to another. Rom. xii. 10. 2. Affected; conceited. Shak.
  • AFFECTER
    One who affects, assumes, pretends, or strives after. "Affecters of wit." Abp. Secker.
  • DEPLORABLENESS
    State of being deplorable.
  • AFFECTIVE
    1. Tending to affect; affecting. Burnet. 2. Pertaining to or exciting emotion; affectional; emotional. Rogers.
  • AFFECTIONATED
    Disposed; inclined. Affectionated to the people. Holinshed.
  • AFFECTIONATE
    1. Having affection or warm regard; loving; fond; as, an affectionate brother. 2. Kindly inclined; zealous. Johson. Man, in his love God, and desire to please him, can never be too affectionate. Sprat. 3. Proceeding from affection; indicating
  • BALEFULNESS
    The quality or state of being baleful.
  • HEAVY-HEADED
    Dull; stupid. "Gross heavy-headed fellows." Beau. & Fl.
  • PAINFUL
    1. Full of pain; causing uneasiness or distress, either physical or mental; afflictive; disquieting; distressing Addison. 2. Requiring labor or toil; difficult; executed with laborious effort; as a painful service; a painful march. 3. Painstaking;
  • DISASTROUS
    1. Full of unpropitious stellar influences; unpropitious; ill-boding. The moon In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds. Milton. 2. Attended with suffering or disaster; very unfortunate; calamitous; ill-fated; as, a disastrous day; a disastrous
  • OVERAFFECT
    To affect or care for unduly. Milton.
  • MISAFFECT
    To dislike.
  • INAFFECTED
    Unaffected. -- In`af*fect"ed*ly, adv.
  • MISAFFECTED
    Ill disposed.
  • TOP-HEAVY
    Having the top or upper part too heavy for the lower part. Sir H. Wotton.
  • MISAFFECTION
    An evil or wrong affection; the state of being ill affected. Bp. Hall.

 

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