Word Meanings - BEWAILABLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Such as may, or ought to, be bewailed; lamentable.

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• BEWAIL
  To express deep sorrow for, as by wailing; to lament; to wail over. Hath widowed and unchilded many a one, Which to this hour bewail the injury. Shak. Syn. -- To bemoan; grieve. -- See Deplore.
• OUGHT
  See AUGHT
• BEWAILING
  Wailing over; lamenting. -- Be*wail"ing*ly, adv.
• BEWAILABLE
  Such as may, or ought to, be bewailed; lamentable.
• OUGHTNESS
  The state of being as a thing ought to be; rightness. N. W. Taylor.
• BEWAILMENT
  The act of bewailing.
• LAMENTABLE
  1. Mourning; sorrowful; expressing grief; as, a lamentable countenance. "Lamentable eye." Spenser. 2. Fitted to awaken lament; to be lamented; sorrowful; pitiable; as, a lamentable misfortune, or error. "Lamentable helplessness." Burke.
• BEWAILER
  One who bewails or laments.
• ROUGHT
  imp. of Reach.
• BOUGHT
  1. A flexure; a bend; a twist; a turn; a coil, as in a rope; as the boughts of a serpent. Spenser. The boughts of the fore legs. Sir T. Browne. 2. The part of a sling that contains the stone.
• HIGH-WROUGHT
  1. Wrought with fine art or skill; elaborate. Pope. 2. Worked up, or swollen, to a high degree; as, a highwrought passion. "A high-wrought flood." Shak.
• DREADNOUGHT
  1. A British battleship, completed in 1906 -- 1907, having an armament consisting of ten 12-inch guns, and of twenty-four 12-pound quick-fire guns for protection against torpedo boats. This was the first battleship of the type characterized by
• THOUGHT
  imp. & p. p. of Think.
• BETHOUGHT
  imp. & p. p. of Bethink.
• MOUGHT
  of May. Might.
• DROUGHTY
  1. Characterized by drought; wanting rain; arid; adust. Droughty and parched countries. Ray. 2. Dry; thirsty; wanting drink. Thy droughty throat. Philips.
• THOUGHTLESS
  1. Lacking thought; careless; inconsiderate; rash; as, a thoughtless person, or act. 2. Giddy; gay; dissipated. Johnson. 3. Deficient in reasoning power; stupid; dull. Thoughtless as monarch oaks that shade the plain. Dryden. -- Thought"less*ly,
• FORETHOUGHT
  Thought of, or planned, beforehand; aforethought; prepense; hence, deliberate. "Forethought malice." Bacon.
• ROUGHTAIL
  Any species of small ground snakes of the family Uropeltidæ; -- so called from their rough tails.
• BOUGHTEN
  Purchased; not obtained or produced at home. Coleridge.
• NEW THOUGHT
  Any form of belief in mental healing other than Christian Science and hypnotism or psychotherapy. Its central principle is affirmative thought, or suggestion, employed with the conviction that man produces changes in his health, his finances,
• PLOWTAIL; PLOUGHTAIL
  The hind part or handle of a plow.
• FOUGHTEN
  p. p. of Fight.
• WROUGHT
  imp. & p. p. of Work. Alas that I was wrought ! Chaucer.