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deplorable

adj
/dɪˈplɔːɹəbl̩/UK/dəˈplɔɹəb(ə)l/US

Etymology

PIE word *de The adjective is borrowed from French déplorable (“lamentable, regrettable”), or from its etymon Late Latin dēplōrābilis + English -able (suffix meaning ‘relevant to, suitable to’). Dēplōrābilis is derived from Latin dēplōrō (“to bemoan, complain about; to bewail, lament, deplore”) + -ābilis (suffix meaning ‘able or worthy to be’); while dēplōrō is from dē- (intensifying prefix) + plōrō (“to cry out; to complain; to lament, deplore”) (possibly from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₃(w)- (“to flow; to swim”)). By surface analysis, deplore + -able. The noun is derived from the adjective. Noun sense 2 refers to a campaign speech by the American politician and Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton (born 1947) during the 2016 United States presidential election calling half of the supporters of her Republican opponent Donald Trump (born 1946) a “basket of deplorables”.

  1. derived from *pleh₃(w)-✻ — “to flow; to swim”
  2. derived from dēplōrō — “to bemoan, complain about; to bewail, lament, deplore”
  3. borrowed from dēplōrābilis
  4. borrowed from déplorable — “lamentable, regrettable”

Definitions

  1. To be deplored.

    • We were all saddened by the deplorable death of his son.
    • [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.

  2. A person or thing that is to be deplored.

    • [W]hat better is an old fellow, mauled with rheumatism and other deplorables.
    • [H]eralding, this season, an end of the most awful of all apparel abominations, that most despicable of all deplorables, the ankle sock.

  3. A supporter of Donald Trump.

    • He [Donald Trump] did not say who “the guys” were—but [John Maguire] Dowd knew he meant the Trump base, the crowds at his rallies, the Fox News watchers, the deplorables.
    • Trump's fate, [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.
    • 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.

The neighborhood

Derived

deplorability, deplorableness, deplorably, DePlorean, Depplorable

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at deplorable. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at deplorable. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

6 hops · closes at deplorable

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA