Dictionary entry

Deplorable

Webster's Dictionary 1913

De‐plor″a‐ble (?), a. [Cf. F. déplorable.] Worthy of being deplored or lamented; lamentable; causing grief; hence, sad; calamitous; grievous; wretched; as, life's evils are deplorable.

Individual sufferers are in a much more deplorable conditious than any others. Burke.