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lamentable

/lamenˈtable/

adjective/lamenˈtable/

lamentable, regrettable

2001, Julio Montes Ponce de León, Medio ambiente y desarrollo sostenido, Univ Pontifica Comillas →ISBN, page 64The treatment that newly planted trees in the vicinity of schools often suffer is lamentable.

Related: lamentablemente

From Latin lāmentābilis (“full of sorrow, mournful; deplorable”), from lāmentor (“lament”), from lāmenta (“wailing, weeping”). Cognate with English lamentable.