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deplorable

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French déplorable, from Late Latin d?pl?r?bilis., from d?- +? pl?r? +? -bilis.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /d??pl????b??/

Adjective

deplorable (comparative more deplorable, superlative most deplorable)

  1. Deserving strong condemnation; shockingly bad, wretched.
  2. To be felt sorrow for; worthy of compassion; lamentable.
    • 1719, Daniel Defoe, The life and adventures of Robinson Crusoe
      There was a youth and his mother, and a maidservant on board, who were going passengers, and thinking the ship was ready to sail, unhappily came on board the evening before the hurricane began; and having no provisions of their own left, they were in a more deplorable condition than the rest.
    • 1840, Public Documents of the State of Maine, "Report Relating to the Insane Hospital", Committee on Public Buildings
      If, however, the early symptoms of insanity be neglected till the brain becomes accustomed to the irregular actions of disease, or till organic changes take place from the early violence of those actions, then the case becomes hopeless of cure. In this situation, in too many cases, the victim of this deplorable malady is cast off by his friends, thrust into a dungeon or in chains, there to remain till the shattered intellect shall exhaust all its remaining energies in perpetual raving and violence, till it sinks into hopeless and deplorable idiocy.

Synonyms

  • pathetic

Translations

Noun

deplorable (plural deplorables)

  1. A person or thing that is to be deplored.
    • 1970, Esquire (volume 74)
      [] heralding, this season, an end of the most awful of all apparel abominations, that most despicable of all deplorables, the ankle sock.
  2. (neologism, US politics) A Trumpist conservative, in reference to a 2016 speech by Hillary Clinton calling half of Donald Trump's supporters a "basket of deplorables".

Further reading

  • deplorable at OneLook Dictionary Search
  • deplorable in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Middle French

Etymology

Late 15th century, borrowed from Latin d?pl?r?bilis.

Adjective

deplorable m or f (plural deplorables)

  1. deplorable (worthy of compassion)

Spanish

Etymology

From Late Latin d?pl?r?bilis, equivalent to deplorar +? -able.

Adjective

deplorable (plural deplorables)

  1. deplorable

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sickening

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?s?k(?)n??/
  • Hyphenation: sick?en?ing

Verb

sickening

  1. present participle of sicken

Adjective

sickening (comparative more sickening, superlative most sickening)

  1. Causing sickness or disgust.
  2. (LGBT slang) Amazing, fantastic.
    • 2014, The Infamous Todd Kachinski Kottmeier, Drag King Guide: So You Want to Be a Male Impersonator, Lulu.com, ?ISBN, p. 188:
      Richard Cranium does sickening stuff (if your budget permits), stones from Charles Brennan and lots of imagination.
    • 2016, Juackie Huba and Shelly Stewart Kronbergs, Fiercely You: Be Fabulous and Confident by Thinking Like a Drag Queen, Berret-Koehler, ?ISBN, no page number:
      Latrice lives every day by her mantra, “It’s OK to make mistakes. It’s OK to fall down. Get up, look sickening, and make them eat it!” Translation: rise above your downfalls in life, and always look amazing while dismissing the haters.
    • 2017, Mayka Castellando and Heitor Leal Machado, “‘Please come to Brazil!’ The practices of RuPaul’s Drag Race’s Brazilian fandom”, in RuPaul’s Drag Race and the Shifting Visibility of Drag Culture, ed. by Niall Brennan and David Gudelunas, Springer, ?ISBN, p. 172:
      Back with the seventh season next March 2nd, RuPaul’s Drag Race promises to gather fans and followers in front of the computer to watch the new competition to crown the most sickening queen.

Translations

See also

  • loathsome
  • disgusting
  • abominable
  • detestable
  • hateful

Noun

sickening (plural sickenings)

  1. The act of making somebody sick.
    • 2010, Greg A. Marley, Chanterelle Dreams, Amanita Nightmares
      In the Northeast, one porcini look-alike has been implicated in several sickenings. It is Boletus huronensis, and though some guides call it edible, there have been a few cases of people becoming sickened following a meal of this mushroom.

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