Synonyms of lamentable

lamentable

adjective

lə-ˈmen-tə-bəl 

1

as in mournful

expressing or suggesting mourning

the lamentable cries of the women for their slain sons were heard throughout the village

Synonyms & Similar Words

• mournful
• weeping
• heartbroken
• funeral
• bitter
• sad
• wailing
• grieving
• woeful
• melancholy
• sorry
• sorrowful
• unhappy
• doleful
• anguished
• regretful
• lugubrious
• tearful
• dolorous
• agonized
• aching
• rueful
• plaintive
• somber
• depressed
• crying
• bewailing
• plangent
• bemoaning
• deploring
• bleak
• morbid
• funereal
• pathetic
• dark
• dolesome
• miserable
• disconsolate
• elegiac
• dejected
• gloomy
• dispirited
• woebegone
• inconsolable
• heartsick
• downcast
• darkening
• crestfallen
• keening
• forlorn
• desolate
• dismal
• wretched
• glum
• groaning
• careworn
• piteous
• despondent
• bleeding
• suffering
• elegiacal
• sombre
• moaning
• moody
• grey
• dirgelike
• cheerless
• howling
• brokenhearted
• gray
• downhearted
• pessimistic
• joyless
• dreary
• black
• low
• morose
• low-spirited
• sullen
• comfortless
• heartsore
• saturnine
• triste
• bawling
• yammering

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• triumphant
• happy
• joyful
• delighted
• cheerful
• cheery
• bright
• laughing
• smiling
• rejoicing
• joyous
• merry
• exulting
• jolly
• blissful
• optimistic
• mirthful
• buoyant
• blithe
• lighthearted
• hopeful
• encouraging
• glorying
• cheering
• ecstatic
• rapturous
• giddy
• blithesome
• euphoric
• jocund
• rhapsodic
• heady
• rhapsodical
• elated
• exhilarated

2

as in tragic

of a kind to cause great distress

it's a lamentable situation, but I don't see how it can be fixed

Synonyms & Similar Words

• tragic
• unfortunate
• tragical
• terrible
• regrettable
• deplorable
• horrible
• woeful
• grievous
• shocking
• distressing
• disturbing
• unlucky
• sad
• painful
• dire
• distressful
• awful
• dreadful
• pitiful
• unsettling
• heartbreaking
• disastrous
• sickening
• troublesome
• miserable
• fearful
• severe
• wretched
• piteous
• alarming
• doleful
• unbearable
• heartrending
• vexatious
• poignant
• horrifying
• traumatic
• overwhelming
• crushing
• intolerable
• calamitous
• touching
• moving
• excruciating
• affecting
• harrowing
• ruthful
• perturbing
• sharp
• raging

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• gratifying
• satisfying
• rewarding
• pleasing
• encouraging
• heartening
• comforting
• inspiring
• happy
• fortunate
• lucky
• heartwarming
• cheering

Examples of lamentable in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

This war, and all its lamentable loss, could end quickly if Hamas released the hostages, and stopped holding Gaza captive to its ideology of hatred and death. —Washington Post, 21 June 2024

Lynne Fox, president of Workers United, the union representing the Starbucks employees, said the decision was lamentable. —Santul Nerkar, New York Times, 13 June 2024

Shafik and other Columbia officials, backed by Mayor Adams and the Police Department, have defended the decision to bring in cops in riot gear as lamentable but necessary. —Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 2 May 2024

Such intensifying confrontation is lamentable but not inevitable. —Zhou Bo, Foreign Affairs, 13 May 2024