Noah Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language

1. (a.) Mourning; sorrowful; expressing grief; as, a lamentable countenance.

2. (a.) Fitted to awaken lament; to be lamented; sorrowful; pitiable; as, a lamentable misfortune, or error.

3. (a.) Miserable; pitiful; paltry; -- in a contemptuous or ridiculous sense.