See Also: toxinogenic(medicine)

lamentable (iou) and toxinogenic (medicine)


lamentable (iou)



lamentable adjective. LME.
[Old & mod. French, or Latin lamentabilis, from lamentari: see LAMENT verb, -ABLE.]
Full of or expressing sorrow or grief; mournful, doleful. Now arch. rare. LME.
N. Hawthorne The lamentable friends, trailing their long black garments.
That is to be lamented; pitiable, regrettable. LME.
Ld Macaulay Another Macdonald, destined to a lamentable and horrible end.
b. Contemptible, deplorable; wretchedly bad. M17.
Oban Times A lamentable clutter of buildings..and brutal modern extensions to pleasant old houses.
lamentableness noun L16.
lamentably adverb L15.

toxinogenic (medicine)


toxinogenic


Producing a toxin, said of an organism.

Synonym: toxigenic.

Origin: toxin + G. -gen, producing