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LAMENTABLE
Definition of LAMENTABLE
adjective
Causing sorrow, distress or regret; deplorable, pitiful or distressing.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English lamentable, from Middle French lamentable, from Latin lāmentābilis (“full of sorrow, mournful; deplorable”), from lāmentor (“lament”), from lāmenta (“wailing, weeping”). By surface analysis, lament + -able.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.7%
of traced words share this origin (23,951)
branch · 30.7% of traced words
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
LAMENTABLE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 137, 4 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 20 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 137, 4 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
LAMENTABLE starts with L and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AABEELLMNT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. L, A and E appear more than once.
Words that start LAMENT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found LAMENTABLE?
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