lamentable

Etymology

From Middle French lamentable, from Latin lāmentābilis (“full of sorrow, mournful; deplorable”), from lāmentor (“lament”), from lāmenta (“wailing, weeping”).

adj

1. Causing sorrow, distress or regret; deplorable, pitiful or distressing.
   Moreover, in view of the lamentable present indecision of the Government in regard to electrification, the large-scale building of diesel power may prove to have been a farseeing move after all. 1961 February, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Trains Illustrated, page 86