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# lamentable

«lamentable» in Mova's school dictionary: **very bad, sad or shameful, so bad that it makes people…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (more lamentable, most lamentable)

### meaning for a pupil

Lamentable means very bad, sad or shameful, so bad that it makes people sorry or ashamed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lamentable/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in old stories a lamentable matter is a terrible trouble, said with a sigh; it is an old use

### examples

- «Here is a lamentable matter,» said the king. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lamentable/#x1)
- The result was lamentable. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lamentable/#x2)
- It was a lamentable tragedy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lamentable/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «lamentable» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lamentable/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.