weepable

English

Etymology

From weep +‎ -able.

Adjective

weepable (not comparable)

1. (rare) lamentable, deplorable, worth weeping over.
   • 1907, Lippincott's Monthly Magazine, volume 79, page 8:

     "I can't speak from experience, for my woes are not generally weepable."

   • 1954, The European: The Journal of Opposition, volumes 11-16, page 55:

     "They made the man's fate more sad, more weepable."

   • 2012, Deborah Saul, "Why Reject the Custer Connection?", The Monroe News.

     "What was laughable or weepable was the realization that lots of other towns around the country go to some lengths to claim a connection to Custer when we seem embarrassed to embrace the links we have."