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{{also|déplorable}}
==English==
{{was wotd|2023|June|12}}
 
===Etymology===
{{PIE word|en|de}}{{root|en|ine-pro|*pleh₃(w)-}}
Borrowed from {{bor|en|fr|déplorable}}, from {{der|en|LL.|dēplōrābilis}}., from {{confix|la|dē|plōrō|bilis|nocat=1}}.
The {{glossary|adjective}} is borrowed from {{bor|en|fr|déplorable|t=lamentable, regrettable}}, or from its {{glossary|etymon}} {{bor|en|LL.|dēplōrābilis}} + [[w:English language|English]] {{m|en|-able|pos={{glossary|suffix}} meaning ‘relevant to, suitable to’}}.<ref>{{R:Lexico|pos=adj}}</ref> {{m|LL.||Dēplōrābilis}} is derived from {{der|en|la|dēplōrō|t=to bemoan, complain about; to bewail, lament, deplore}}<ref name="OED">Compare {{R:OED Online|pos=adj.'' and ''n|id=50310|date=March 2023}}</ref> + {{m|la|-ābilis|pos=suffix meaning ‘able or worthy to be’}}; while {{m|la||dēplōrō}} is from {{m|la|dē-|pos={{glossary|intensifying}} {{glossary|prefix}}}} + {{m|la|plōrō|t=to cry out; to complain; to lament, deplore}} (possibly from {{der|en|ine-pro|*pleh₃(w)-|t=to flow; to swim}}). {{surf|en|deplore|-able}}.
 
The {{glossary|noun}} is derived from the adjective.<ref name="OED"/> {{senseno|en|US politics|uc=1}} refers to a campaign speech by the American politician and [[w:Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] presidential nominee {{w|Hillary Clinton}} (born 1947) during the {{w|2016 United States presidential election}} calling half of the supporters of her [[w:Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] opponent {{w|Donald Trump}} (born 1946) a “{{w|basket of deplorables}}”.<ref>{{cite-journal|author=Katie Reilly|quotee={{w|Hillary Clinton}}|magazine=[[w:Time (magazine)|Time]]|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20230523205232/https://time.com/4486502/hillary-clinton-basket-of-deplorables-transcript/|location=New York, N.Y.|publisher=[[w:WarnerMedia|Time Warner Publishing]]|date=10 September 2016|issn=0928-8430|oclc=749127914|passage=‘You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right?’ Clinton said.}}
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===Pronunciation===
* {{a|UK}} {{IPA|en|/dɪˈplɔːɹəbəɫdɪˈplɔːɹəbl̩/|a=RP}}
* {{audio|en|enLL-usQ1860 (eng)-Rho9998-deplorable.oggwav|Audio (US)a=RP}}
* {{IPA|en|/dəˈplɔɹəb(ə)l/|a=GA}}
* {{audio|en|LL-Q1860 (eng)-Rho9998-deplorable.wav|Audio (UK)}}
* {{audio|en|En-us-deplorable.ogg|a=GA}}
* {{hyphenation|en|de|plor|a|ble}}
 
===Adjective===
{{en-adj}}
 
# To be [[deplore]]d.
# [[deserve|Deserving]] [[strong]] [[condemnation]]; [[shockingly]] [[bad]], [[wretched]].
## To be [[feel#Verb|felt]] [[sorrow#Noun|sorrow]] for; [[worthy]] of [[compassion]]; [[lamentable]].
#: {{ux|en|Poor children suffer permanent damage due to '''deplorable''' living conditions and '''deplorable''' treatment by law enforcement.}}
##: {{synonyms|en|q1=obsolete|deplorate|pathetic|Thesaurus:lamentable}}
#: {{ux|en|Poor children are often accused of having '''deplorable''' manners, when they are, in fact, simply responding to society in ways that mirror how society treats them.}}
##: {{ux|en|We were all saddened by the '''deplorable''' death of his son.}}
#* {{RQ:Tocqueville Democracy|volume=II|chapter=The Present, and Probable Future Condition of the Three Races which Inhabit the Territory of the United States|page=413|passage=I assert that the attacks directed against the Bank of the United States, originate in the same propensities which militate against the Federal Government; and that the very numerous opponents of the former afford a '''deplorable''' symptom of the decreasing support of the latter.}}
##* {{RQ:Massinger Believe as You List|page=75|passage=[T]he storie of / Your most '''deplorable''' fortune at the first warmde mee / With more then modest heates, but since I saw you / I am all fire, and shall turne cyndars, yf / You showe not mercie to mee.}}
# To be [[feel#Verb|felt]] [[sorrow#Noun|sorrow]] for; [[worthy]] of [[compassion]]; [[lamentable]].
##* {{RQ:Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica|chapter=A Digression of the Wisdome of God in the Site and Motion of the Sun|page=291|passage=[T]heſe ſeaſons are defined by the motions of the Sun; {{...}} vvhereas remaining in one place theſe diſtinctions had ceaſed, and conſequently the generation of all things depending on their viciſſitudes; making in one hemiſphere a perpetuall Summer, in the other a '''deplorable''' and comfortleſſe VVinter, {{...}}}}
#: {{ux|en|We were all saddened by the '''deplorable''' death of his son.}}
##* {{RQ:Bunyan Holy War|chapter=The Summons It Self|page=94|passage=O hard-hearted, and '''deplorable''' Tovvn of ''Manſoul'', hovv long vvilt thou love thy ſinful, ſinful ſimplicity, and ye fools delight in their ſcorning?}}
#* '''1719''', {{w|Daniel Defoe}}, ''The life and adventures of {{w|Robinson Crusoe}}''<!--Date probably incorrect; quotation does not appear to be from the 1st edition (1719). However, it appears in a 1790 edition: see https://books.google.comg/books?id=uMgBAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA1-PA28.-->
##* {{RQ:Defoe Crusoe|pages=128–129|pageref=128|passage=[T]ho' my Caſe vvas '''deplorable''' enough, yet I had great Cauſe for Thankfulneſs, and that I vvas not driven to any Extremities for Food; but rather Plenty, even to Dainties.}}
#*: There was a youth and his mother, and a maidservant on board, who were going passengers, and thinking the ship was ready to sail, unhappily came on board the evening before the hurricane began; and having no provisions of their own left, they were in a more '''deplorable''' condition than the rest.
##* {{RQ:Robertson History of Scotland|volume=I|book=IV|page=368|passage=But the people beheld the '''deplorable''' ſituation of their Sovereign vvith inſenſibility; and ſo ſtrong vvas their perſuaſion of her guilt, and ſo great the violence of their indignation, that the ſufferings of their Queen did not, in any degree, mitigate their reſentment, or procure her that ſympathy, vvhich is ſeldom denied to unfortunate Princes.}}
#* {{RQ:Tocqueville Democracy|volume=II|chapter=The Present, and Probable Future Condition of the Three Races which Inhabit the Territory of the United States|pages=306–307|pageref=307|passage=The condition of the Creeks and Cherokees, to which I have already alluded, sufficiently corroborates the truth of this '''deplorable''' picture.}}
##* {{RQ:Tocqueville Democracy|volume=II|chapter=The Present, and Probable Future Condition of the Three Races which Inhabit the Territory of the United States|pages=306–307|pageref=307|passage=The condition of the Creeks and Cherokees, to which I have already alluded, sufficiently corroborates the truth of this '''deplorable''' picture.}}
#* '''1840''', ''Public Documents of the State of Maine'', "Report Relating to the Insane Hospital", Committee on Public Buildings
##*: {{quote-journal|en|quotee=[Samuel B.?] Woodward|title=Asylum for Poor Lunatics at Worcester, Massachusetts|journal=Twelfth Annual Report of the Board of Managers of the Prison Discipline Society, Boston, May, 1837|location=Boston, Mass.|publisher=[Prison Discipline Society]; stereotyped at the Boston Type and Stereotype Foundery|year=1837|page=19|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=4Pc7AQAAMAAJ&pg=RA5-PA19|oclc=81521101|passage=If, however, the early symptoms of insanity be neglected till the brain becomes accustomed to the irregular actions of disease, or till organic changes take place from the early violence of those actions, then the case becomes hopeless of cure. In this situation, in too many cases, the victim of this '''deplorable''' malady is cast off by his friends, thrust into a dungeon or in chains, there to remain till the shattered intellect shall exhaust all its remaining energies in perpetual raving and violence, till it sinks into hopeless and '''deplorable''' idiocy.}}
##* {{RQ:Besant Ivory Gate|chapter=Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?|page=23|passage=Such a scandal as the prosecution of a brother for forgery—with a verdict of guilty—is a most truly horrible, '''deplorable''', fatal thing. It takes the respectability out of a family perhaps at a critical moment, when the family is just assuming the robes of respectability; [...] it is a black spot which all the soaps ever advertised could never wash off.}}
## [[deserve|Deserving]] [[strong#Adjective|strong]] [[condemnation]]; [[shockingly]] [[bad#Adjective|bad]], [[wretched]].
##: {{synonyms|en|damnable|scornworthy}}
##: {{ux|en|Poor children suffer permanent damage due to '''deplorable''' living conditions and '''deplorable''' treatment by law enforcement.}}
##: {{ux|en|Poor children are often accused of having '''deplorable''' manners, when they are, in fact, simply responding to society in ways that mirror how society treats them.}}
##* {{RQ:Tatler|author=Swift|issue=230|date=28 September 1710|page=254|passage=There are some abuses among us of great consequence, the reformation of which is properly your province; though, as far as I have been conversant in your papers, you have not yet considered them. These are, the '''deplorable''' ignorance that for some years hath reigned among our ''English'' writers, the great depravity of our taste, and the continual corruption of our style.}}
##* {{RQ:Tocqueville Democracy|volume=II|chapter=The Present, and Probable Future Condition of the Three Races which Inhabit the Territory of the United States|page=413|passage=I assert that the attacks directed against the Bank of the United States, originate in the same propensities which militate against the Federal Government; and that the very numerous opponents of the former afford a '''deplorable''' symptom of the decreasing support of the latter.}}
 
====SynonymsDerived terms====
* {{lcol-auto|en|damnable}}Depplorable
|{{l|en|deplorability}} {{qualifier|rare}}|deplorableness|deplorably}}
* {{l|en|lamentable}}
 
* {{l|en|pathetic}}
====Related terms====
* {{l|en|scornworthy}}
{{col3|en
* See also [[Thesaurus:lamentable]]
|[[deplorate]] {{qualifier|obsolete}}
|[[deploration]] {{qualifier|archaic}}
|[[deplorative]] {{qualifier|obsolete}}
|deplore
|[[deplored]] {{qualifier|adjective}}
|[[deplorement]] {{qualifier|obsolete}}
}}
 
====Translations====
{{trans-top-also|deservingto strongbe condemnationfelt sorrow for; shockinglyworthy badof compassion|lamentable}}
* Belarusian: {{t|be|су́мны}}, {{t|be|жа́ласны}}
* Bulgarian: {{t|bg|за оплакване}}
* Danish: {{t|da|beklagelig}}, {{t|da|sørgelig}}
* Dutch: {{t+|nl|deplorabel}}, {{t+|nl|betreurenswaardig}}, {{t+|nl|deerniswekkend}}
* Esperanto: {{t|eo|plorinda}}
* Finnish: {{t|fi|surkuteltava}}, {{t+|fi|valitettava}}
* German: {{t+|de|bedauerlich}}, {{t+|de|bedauernswert}}, {{t+|de|beklagenswert}}
* Greek: {{t+|el|αξιοθρήνητος|m}}, {{t+|el|αξιολύπητος|m}}, {{t+|el|λυπηρός|m}}
* Japanese: {{t+|ja|嘆かわしい|tr=なげかわしい, nagekawashii}}
* Macedonian: {{t|mk|жа́лосен}}
* Norwegian:
*: Bokmål: {{t|nb|stakkarslig}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|deplorável}}, {{t+|pt|lamentável}}
* Romanian: {{t+|ro|deplorabil}}, {{t+|ro|lamentabil}}, {{t+|ro|nenorocit}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|несча́стный}}, {{t+|ru|приско́рбный}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|deplorable}}, {{t+|es|lamentable}}
* Swedish: {{t+|sv|beklagansvärd}}
* Turkish: {{t|tr|acınacak durumda}}, {{t|tr|acınacak halde}}
* Ukrainian: {{t|uk|пла́чний}}, {{t|uk|жа́лібний}}, {{t|uk|жалібни́й}}
{{trans-bottom}}
 
{{trans-top-also|deserving strong condemnation; shockingly bad|wretched}}
* Belarusian: {{t+|be|дрэ́нны}}, {{t|be|ке́пскі}}
* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|плачевен}}
* Danish: {{t|da|elendig}}
* Dutch: {{t+|nl|verwerpelijk}}
* Esperanto: {{t|eo|teruraabomeninda}}, {{t|eo|abomenindakondamninda}}, {{t|eo|kondamnindaterura}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|paheksuttava}};, {{t|fi|(paheksuttavan) [[surkeakurja]]}}, {{t|fi|(paheksuttavan) [[kurjasurkea]]}}
* French: {{t+|fr|déplorable}}, {{t+|fr|lamentable}}, {{t+|fr|pitoyable}}
* German: {{t+|de|verdammungswürdigmiserabel}}, {{t+|de|verdammenswertschimpflich}}; (verdammenswert), {{t+|de|kläglichskandalös}}, (verdammenswert) {{t+|de|erbärmlichverdammungswürdig}}, {{t+|de|skandalösverdammenswert}}, (verdammenswert) {{t+|de|miserabelerbärmlich}}, (verdammenswert) {{t+|de|verwerflichkläglich}}, {{t+|de|schimpflichverwerflich}}
* Greek: {{t+|el|οικτρός|m}}, {{t+|el|ελεεινός|m}}, {{t+|el|άθλιος|m}}
{{trans-mid}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|deplorabile}}, {{t+|it|deplorevole}}, {{t+|it|deprecabile}}
* Macedonian: {{t|mk|бе́ден}}
* Norman: {{t|nrf|lamentabl'ye}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|deplorável}}, {{t+|pt|desprezível}}
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* Swedish: {{t+|sv|bedrövlig}}
* Turkish: {{t+|tr|içler acısı}}
* Ukrainian: {{t+|uk|пога́нийке́пський}}, {{t+|uk|ке́пськийпога́ний}}
{{trans-bottom}}
 
===Noun===
{{trans-top|lamentable, to be felt sorrow for, worthy of compassion}}
{{en-noun}}
* Belarusian: {{t|be|жа́ласны}}, {{t|be|су́мны}}
 
* Bulgarian: {{t|bg|за оплакване}}
# A [[person#Noun|person]] or [[thing]] that is to be [[deplore]]d.
* Danish: {{t|da|sørgelig}}, {{t|da|beklagelig}}
#* {{RQ:Scott Journal|date=10 April 1828|page=157|passage=[W]hat better is an old fellow, mauled with rheumatism and other '''deplorables'''.}}
* Dutch: {{t+|nl|betreurenswaardig}}, {{t+|nl|deplorabel}}, {{t+|nl|deerniswekkend}}
#* {{quote-journal|en|editor=w:Harold Hayes|magazine=[[w:Esquire (magazine)|Esquire]]|location=Chicago, Ill.|publisher=Esquire, Inc.|year=1970|volume=74|page=183|column=1|issn=0014-0791|oclc=752409455|passage=[H]eralding, this season, an end of the most awful of all apparel abominations, that most despicable of all '''deplorables''', the ankle sock.}}
* Esperanto: {{t|eo|plorinda}}
# {{senseid|en|US politics}}{{lb|en|specifically|US politics|derogatory|neologism}} A [[supporter]] of {{w|Donald Trump}}.
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|valitettava}}, {{t|fi|surkuteltava}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=w:Bob Woodward|chapter=|title={{w|Fear: Trump in the White House}}|location=New York, N.Y.|publisher=w:Simon & Schuster|year=2018|page=355|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=wKRkDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA355|isbn=978-1-5011-7551-0|passage=He &#91;{{w|Donald Trump}}&#93; did not say who “the guys” were—but [[w:John M. Dowd|[John Maguire] Dowd]] knew he meant the Trump base, the crowds at his rallies, the Fox News watchers, the '''deplorables'''.}}
* German: {{t+|de|bedauernswert}}, {{t+|de|bedauerlich}}, {{t+|de|beklagenswert}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=[[w:Michael Wolff (journalist)|Michael Wolff]]|chapter=[[w:John McCain|McCain]], [[w:Bob Woodward|Woodward]], Anonymous|title={{w|Siege: Trump Under Fire}}|location=New York, N.Y.|publisher=w:Henry Holt and Company|date=4 June 2019|isbn=978-1-250-25382-8|passage=Trump's fate, [[w:Steve Bannon|[Steve] Bannon]] declared, rested with the '''deplorables''', who had to be brought to the kind of fearful emotional pitch that would get them to the polls.}}
* Greek: {{t+|el|αξιοθρήνητος|m}}, {{t+|el|λυπηρός|m}}, {{t+|el|αξιολύπητος|m}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=[[w:Rick Wilson (political consultant)|Rick Wilson]]|title=Running against the Devil: A Plot to Save America from Trump—And Democrats from Themselves|location=New York, N.Y.|publisher=Crown Forum, {{w|Crown Publishing Group}}|year=2020|page=265|isbn=978-0-593-13758-1|passage=The self-image of the '''deplorables''' is that of the honest, hardworkin' people of the Christian American heartland and South who have been screwed by Washington, D.C., and the coastal elites since the dawn of time.}}
* Japanese: {{t+|ja|嘆かわしい|tr=なげかわしい, nagekawashii|sc=Jpan}}
 
{{trans-mid}}
====Translations====
{{trans-top|person or thing that is to be deplored}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|paheksuttava}} {{qualifier|adjective}}, {{t|fi|surkuteltava}} {{qualifier|adjective}}
* Galician: {{t-needed|gl}}
* Macedonian: {{t|mk|жа́лник|m}}
* Norwegian:
*: Bokmål: {{t|nb|stakkarsligsammensurium|n}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|deplorável}}, {{t+|pt|lamentável}}
* Romanian: {{t+|ro|nenorocit}}, {{t+|ro|deplorabil}}, {{t+|ro|lamentabil}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|несча́стный}}, {{t+|ru|приско́рбный}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|deplorable}}, {{t+|es|lamentable}}
* Turkish: {{t|tr|acınacak durumda}}, {{t|tr|acınacak halde}}
* Ukrainian: {{t|uk|жа́лібний}}, {{t|uk|жалібни́й}}, {{t|uk|пла́чний}}
{{trans-bottom}}
 
{{trans-see|supporter of Donald Trump|Trumpist}}
====See also====
* {{l|en|reportable}}
 
===NounReferences===
<references/>
{{en-noun}}
 
# A person or thing that is to be [[deplore]]d.
#* '''1970''', ''Esquire'' (volume 74)
#*: {{...}} heralding, this season, an end of the most awful of all apparel abominations, that most despicable of all '''deplorables''', the ankle sock.
# {{lb|en|neologism|US politics|often|_|derogatory}} A [[Trumpist]] [[conservative]], in reference to a 2016 speech by {{w|Hillary Clinton}} calling half of {{w|Donald Trump}}'s supporters a "{{w|basket of deplorables}}".
#* '''2018''', Bob Woodward, ''Fear: Trump in the White House'', [https://www.google.com/books/edition/Fear/wKRkDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22the+deplorables%22+trump&pg=PA355 page 355]:
#*: He did not say who “the guys” were—but Dowd knew he meant the Trump base, the crowds at his rallies, the Fox News watchers, the '''deplorables'''.
#* '''2019''', Michael Wolff, ''Siege: Trump Under Fire'', [https://www.google.com/books/edition/Siege/BgaNDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22the+deplorables%22+trump&pg=PT143 unnumbered page]:
#*: Trump's fate, Bannon declared, rested with the '''deplorables''', who had to be brought to the kind of fearful emotional pitch that would get them to the polls.
#* '''2020''', Rick Wilson, ''Running Against the Devil: A Plot to Save America from Trump--And Democrats from Themselves'', [https://www.google.com/books/edition/Running_Against_the_Devil/rSLKDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22the+deplorables%22+trump&pg=PA265 page 265]:
#*: The self-image of the '''deplorables''' is that of the honest, hardworkin' people of the Christian American heartland and South who have been screwed by Washington, D.C., and the coastal elites since the dawn of time.
#* {{seemoreCites|en}}
 
===Further reading===
* {{R:OneLook}}
* {{R:Century 1911}}
* {{R:OneLook}}
 
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==Middle French==
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# {{l|en|deplorable}} (worthy of compassion)
 
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==Spanish==
 
===Etymology===
From {{bor+|es|LL.|dēplōrābilis}}, equivalent to {{suffix|es|deplorar|able}}.
 
===Pronunciation===
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{{es-adj}}
 
# [[#English{{l|en|deplorable]]}}
 
====Derived terms====
* {{lcol-auto|es|deplorablemente}}
 
===Further reading===
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