Adjective: lamentable
Hyphenation: la‧men‧ta‧ble
| Singular m. | lamentable |
| Singular f. | lamentable |
Sample Sentences
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2001, Julio Montes Ponce de León, Medio ambiente y desarrollo sostenido, Univ Pontifica Comillas →ISBN, page 64 (The treatment that newly planted trees in the vicinity of schools often suffer is lamentable.)
Adjectives inflected like lamentable
egocentrista,
cervantista,
ionizante,
antenupcial,
posgradual,
milimolar,
renovable,
lunisolar,
innumerable,
disfuncional,
deflacionista,
antiindependentista,
minifundista,
serial,
servil,
septal,
estravagante,
sexual,
secuaz,
seglar, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From Latin lāmentābilis (“full of sorrow, mournful; deplorable”), from lāmentor (“lament”), from lāmenta (“wailing, weeping”). Cognate with English lamentable. See: Latin Adjectives '
lāmentābilis', English Adjectives '
lamentable'.
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