Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To feel or express strong disapproval of; condemn: "Somehow we had to master events, not simply deplore them” ( Henry A. Kissinger).
- v. To express sorrow or grief over.
- v. To regret; bemoan.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To lament; bewail; mourn; feel or express deep and poignant grief for or in regard to.
- To despair of; regard or give up as desperate.
- To tell of sympathetically.
- Synonyms To bemoan, grieve for, sorrow over.
- To utter lamentations; lament; moan.
Wiktionary
- v. transitive To bewail; to weep bitterly over; to feel sorrow for.
- v. transitive To condemn; to express strong disapproval of.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To feel or to express deep and poignant grief for; to bewail; to lament; to mourn; to sorrow over.
- v. obsolete To complain of.
- v. obsolete To regard as hopeless; to give up.
- v. To lament.
WordNet 3.0
- v. express strong disapproval of
- v. regret strongly
Etymologies
- From Latin deplorare ("to lament over, bewail"), from de- + plorare ("to wail, weep aloud"); origin uncertain. (Wiktionary)
- French déplorer, lament, regret, from Latin dēplōrāre : dē-, de- + plōrāre, to wail. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“What I deplore is the fact that we are now - what we now - almost everything written or spoken in English and Spanish.”
“Personally, the thing I most deplore is the fondness for tobacco, but there doesn't seem much point in trying to argue that away, either: this was a man who rebelled, who thought for himself, and who liked to shock.”
“To deplore is to (1) feel or express grief for; (2) regret strongly; (3) consider unfortunate or desreving of deprecation.”
“I’ve only been here since early 2008, but it appears to me that at least half, and probably more, of the language which you deplore comes from the anti-Kos and anti-FDL type people who are in the libertarian and/or conservative ad/or Republican camp.”
“The media/Republican evangelical extremist leaders never kill anyone themselves of course, and they always "deplore" the violence.”
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“In their statement Tuesday, U.S. bishops said they "deplore" the incursions and "call for them to end.”
“Norfolk blogger , why would you "deplore" a member of the BNP?”
“I don't think Bill Joy is particularly hypocrytical, and he certainly doesn't "deplore" progresss.”
“G-8 leaders also said they "deplore" the March 26 attack on the South”
“At a chapel meeting yesterday, where journalists voted to reballot for industrial action over proposals by Trinity Mirror to cut 200 editorial jobs across the Mirror Group Newspapers titles, BAJ also passed a motion to "deplore" MGN's failure to implement the pay award.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘deplore’.
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4087 more...
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EN - eloquence in public speaking
Key words from "The Training of a Public Speaker" by Grenville Kleiser (New York and London, 1920)
beget, imago, Vespasian, languid, studied, judgment, dwindle, artifice, contribute, observe, sonorous, gladiator and 264 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6691 more...
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the first list
an immense, grandiloquent list that loads like a thousand years sentence in stone. new words are in the other lists.
ridiculous, brummagem, predicament, sanctimonious, vapid, eschew, admonish, auspicious, capitulation, enumerate, lachrymose, tenet and 1648 more...
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diioxyde's Words
macabre, egypt, egyptology, queen, love, sex, sister, lover, web, cobweb, line, circle and 223 more...
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Words I Know
List of most of the words I've learned
garner, abase, abate, abdicate, abduct, aberration, abet, abhor, abide, abject, abjure, abnegation and 1046 more...
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ADW1
obdurate, obstinate, behest, injunction, enjoin, circumspect, ensconce, discursive, lugubrious, doleful, somber, ken and 2476 more...
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Vocab++
Words as I learn them.
fetid, mezzanine, hiatus, austerity, subliminal, resplendent, implacable, impugn, debase, exiguous, cirque, holster and 2538 more...
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G & G
GRE , GMAT , TOEFL , IELTS , SAT 。。。
alphabet soup, vernacular, aberrant, abeyance, abet, recant, contrite, reiterate, patois, skew, senate, deliberative and 179 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, D
dodecahedron, din, diglyceride, dysphotopsia, decoction, deboss, diatonic, dithyramb, divagate, discalced, dishdasha, daft and 281 more...
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Umbersorrow
Intangible, anthropic.
States of being are listed on oofy.njiju, glark, deplore, afterlithe, tagmass, spuriosity, forkful, chelation, oding, ploat, botnet, quedeship and 477 more...
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Tolland's list
Those I've come across and try to keep fresh within my mind.
clandestine, dysphoric, indictive, vigil, fractious, assiduous, indefatigable, ubiquitous, insidious, paroicous, aplomb, sangfroid and 654 more...
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From Book - SAT & College Dictionary ...
ebb, exotic, immure, abeyance, panegyric, debonair, protege, dissipate, frantic, penitent, abject, edify and 871 more...
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Reading Random
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delinquency, modicum, dissuade, incendiary, destitute, lachrymose, plight, ruse, empirical, pedantic, demography, giggle and 444 more...
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verbs
deprecate, behold, bemoan, circumscribe, circumspect, pivot, discombobulate, rummage, chasten, chastise, undulate, snog and 122 more...
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Opethead's list
All Words
deplore, immense, ominouse, dilapidated, dunghill, admonitary, procuring, legilimens, mediocre, implicitly, beseechingly, imperiously and 170 more...
Tweets
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chained_bear Deplorable is also fun (and a U.N. Security Council word). Aug 11, 2008
reesetee Because you wanted it to. That's how the Tip-of-My-Tongue Monster works. He tortures me frequently. Aug 10, 2008
plethora THIS is the words I was trying to think of on Friday! *headdesk* Why, why, WHY would it not come to mind? Aug 10, 2008
yarb Very well put, she. Aug 10, 2008
bilby UN Security Council word. Aug 10, 2008
she Deplore is one of those sneaky, too-familiar words that hide how lovely they are until the hundredth-or-so time you've used them. Aug 10, 2008