Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Deplorable \De*plor"a*ble\, a. [Cf. F. d['e]plorable.]
   Worthy of being deplored or lamented; lamentable; causing
   grief; hence, sad; calamitous; grievous; wretched; as, life's
   evils are deplorable.

         Individual sufferers are in a much more deplorable
         conditious than any others.              --Burke.

Source : WordNet®

deplorable
     adj 1: bad; unfortunate; "my finances were in a deplorable state";
            "a lamentable decision"; "her clothes were in sad
            shape"; "a sorry state of affairs" [syn: {distressing},
             {lamentable}, {pitiful}, {sad}, {sorry}]
     2: of very poor quality or condition; "deplorable housing
        conditions in the inner city"; "woeful treatment of the
        accused"; "woeful errors of judgment" [syn: {execrable}, {miserable},
         {woeful}, {wretched}]
     3: bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure; "a criminal
        waste of talent"; "a deplorable act of violence";
        "adultery is as reprehensible for a husband as for a wife"
        [syn: {condemnable}, {criminal}, {reprehensible}]