different between woeful vs lamentable

English

Alternative forms

• (obsolete) woful, wofull

Etymology

From Middle English woful, waful, equivalent to woe +? -ful. Compare Old English w?l?? (“woeful”), Old English t?onful (“woeful”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?w??f?l/

Adjective

woeful (comparative woefuller, superlative woefullest)

1. Full of woe; sorrowful; distressed with grief or calamity.

   • How many woeful widows left to bow / To sad disgrace!

2. Bringing calamity, distress, or affliction.

   a woeful event

   a woeful lack of restraint

3. Lamentable, deplorable.
4. Wretched; paltry; poor.

Derived terms

• woefully
• woefulness

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:lamentable

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.