deplorable
Plural: deplorables
Adjective Satellite
- bad; unfortunate
- "my finances were in a deplorable state"
- of very poor quality or condition
- "deplorable housing conditions in the inner city"
- bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure
- "a deplorable act of violence"
Adj
- To be deplored.
- To be felt sorrow for; worthy of compassion; lamentable.
- To be deplored.
- Deserving strong condemnation; shockingly bad, wretched.
Noun
- A person or thing that is to be deplored.
- A supporter of Donald Trump.
Examples
- Poor children are often accused of having deplorable manners, when they are, in fact, simply responding to society in ways that mirror how society treats them.
- Poor children suffer permanent damage due to deplorable living conditions and deplorable treatment by law enforcement.
- We were all saddened by the deplorable death of his son.
Origin / Etymology
PIE word
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The adjective is borrowed from French déplorable (“lamentable, regrettable”), or from its etymon Late Latin dēplōrābilis + English -able (suffix meaning ‘relevant to, suitable to’). Dēplōrābilis is derived from Latin dēplōrō (“to bemoan, complain about; to bewail, lament, deplore”) + -ābilis (suffix meaning ‘able or worthy to be’); while dēplōrō is from dē- (intensifying prefix) + plōrō (“to cry out; to complain; to lament, deplore”) (possibly from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₃(w)- (“to flow; to swim”)). By surface analysis, deplore + -able.
The noun is derived from the adjective. Sense 2 refers to a campaign speech by the American politician and Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton (born 1947) during the 2016 United States presidential election calling half of the supporters of her Republican opponent Donald Trump (born 1946) a “basket of deplorables”.
Synonyms
condemnable, criminal, distressing, execrable, lamentable, miserable, pitiful, reprehensible, sad, sorry, vicious, woeful, wretched, atrabiliary, atrabilious, damnable, deplorable, deplorate, depressing, grievous, lachrymable, mournful, pathetic, pathetisad, pitiable, pitisome, regrettable, rueful, saddening, scornworthy, sorrowful, tragic, unhappy, upsetting, woebegone
Scrabble Score: 15
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deplorable: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary