different between severe vs lamentable

English

Etymology

From Middle French, from Latin severus (“severe, serious, grave in demeanor”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /s??v??/ (US) IPA^(key): /s??v?r/
• Rhymes: -??(?)

Adjective

severe (comparative severer or more severe, superlative severest or most severe)

1. Very bad or intense.
2. Strict or harsh.

   a severe taskmaster

3. Sober, plain in appearance, austere.

   a severe old maiden aunt

Synonyms

Antonyms

• (very bad or intense): mild
• (very bad or intense): minor
• (strict or harsh): lenient

Derived terms

• severely (adverb)
• severity (noun)
• severeness (noun)

Translations

Further reading

• severe in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• severe in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• severe at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Reeves, everse, reeves, servee

Esperanto

Adverb

severe

1. severely

Related terms

• severa

Italian

Adjective

severe

1. feminine plural of severo

Latin

Verb

s?v?re

1. third-person plural perfect active indicative of ser?

Adjective

sev?re

1. vocative masculine singular of sev?rus

References

• severe in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• severe in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• severe in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

severe (Cyrillic spelling ??????)

1. vocative singular of sever

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.