different between drear vs lamentable

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d???/

Etymology 1

Shortening of dreary.

Adjective

drear (comparative drearer, superlative drearest)

1. (poetic) Dreary.
   • 1794, William Blake, Earth's Answer, lines 1-2

     Earth raised up her head
     From the darkness dread and drear,

   • 1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night

     I spoke, perplexed by something in the signs
     Of desolation I had seen and heard
     In this drear pilgrimage to ruined shrines:

   • 1922, A. E. Housman, Last Poems, XXVIII, lines 1-2

     Now dreary dawns the eastern light,
     And fall of eve is drear, [...]

Etymology 2

Back-formation from dreary.

Noun

drear (plural drears)

1. (obsolete) Gloom; sadness.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, VI.2:

     She thankt him deare / Both for that newes he did to her impart, / And for the courteous care which he did beare / Both to her love and to her selfe in that sad dreare.

Anagrams

• Rader, arder, arred, darer, rared, rear'd, reard

English

Etymology

From Middle French lamentable, from Latin l?ment?bilis (“full of sorrow, mournful; deplorable”), from l?mentor (“lament”), from l?menta (“wailing, weeping”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l??m?n.t?.b?l/, /?læm.?n.t?.b?l/

Adjective

lamentable (comparative more lamentable, superlative most lamentable)

1. Causing sorrow, distress or regret; deplorable, pitiful or distressing.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:lamentable

Derived terms

• lamentability
• lamentableness
• lamentably

Related terms

• lament

Translations

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /l?.m?n?ta.bl?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /la.men?ta.ble/

Adjective

lamentable (masculine and feminine plural lamentables)

1. lamentable, regrettable

Derived terms

• lamentablement

Related terms

• lamentar

Further reading

• “lamentable” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

French

Etymology

From Latin l?ment?bilis (“full of sorrow, mournful; deplorable”), from l?mentor (“lament”), from l?menta (“wailing, weeping”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /la.m??.tabl/
• Homophone: lamentables
• Rhymes: -abl

Adjective

lamentable (plural lamentables)

1. lamentable; awful; deplorable

Derived terms

• lamentablement

Related terms

• lamenter

Further reading

• “lamentable” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin l?ment?bilis (“full of sorrow, mournful; deplorable”), from l?mentor (“lament”), from l?menta (“wailing, weeping”). Cognate with English lamentable.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lamen?table/, [la.m?n??t?a.??le]

Adjective

lamentable (plural lamentables)

1. lamentable, regrettable
   • 2001, Julio Montes Ponce de León, Medio ambiente y desarrollo sostenido, Univ Pontifica Comillas ?ISBN, page 64

Derived terms

• lamentablemente

Related terms

• lamentar (see for more terms)

Further reading

• “lamentable” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.