lamentable.

1. Deserving serious regret or sorrow because something has gone badly wrong or caused harm.

2. So inadequate or disappointing in quality that it merits strong criticism or regret.

Use it for

Words that belong together

• lamentable loss
• lamentable failure
• lamentable state
• lamentable performance
• lamentable condition
• lamentable lack of evidence

On the page

The board called the loss of the archive a lamentable failure.

The report’s lamentable citation record weakened its otherwise careful argument.

Usage notes

Can express sorrow over a loss or condemn poor quality; the noun it modifies determines the shade of meaning. Sense 2: This critical sense is stronger than ordinary dissatisfaction and is common in formal evaluation.