plor- +

Deserving censure or contempt; wretched: "The deplorability of their living conditions are too hard to describe."

1. Worthy of severe condemnation or reproach: "He committed a deplorable act of violence."
2. Lamentable; woeful: "Her apartment was in a deplorable state of filth."
3. Wretched; bad: "They were living in deplorable housing conditions in that neighborhood."

1. A condition causing or being a subject for grief or regret; lamentable: "She felt terrible about the deplorable death of a friend."
2. A reference to causing or being a subject for censure, reproach, or disapproval; wretched; very bad: "Their hotel room was in a deplorable condition."

In an unfortunate or deplorable (wretched, bad) manner: "The children behaved deplorably."

1. To regret deeply or strongly; to lament: "Many people deplore the present state of morality in films, the radio, videos, etc."
2. To disapprove of; to censure.
3. To feel or to express deep grief for or in regard to something: "The students deplored the death of their teacher."

Someone who expresses strong disapproval of something or who regrets strongly about what is being done or a condition which exists: "She was a deplorer of the government's treatment of political prisoners."

A description of grief or sorrow for something: "He deploringly expressed his grief at what happened on his flight back home."

That which can be explored; such as, an explorable region.

1. The act or an instance of exploring: "They went on an Arctic exploration to see the animal life."
2. The act of exploring, penetrating, or ranging over for purposes of discovery, especially of geographical discovery.

1. To travel to or in a place in order to discover what it is like or what is there.
2. To make a careful investigation or study of something by exploring all possible avenues of research.
3. To make a search of an area for natural resources; such as, mineral deposits.
4. To examine a part of the body in order to make a medical diagnosis.
5. Etymology: from Latin explorare, "to investigate, to search out"; said to be originally a hunting term, which meant "to shout out (the game)"; that is, "to elicit the game through the shouts of the beaters and the cries of the dogs".

1. Someone who explores, especially any one who explores a geographic area.
2. An implement or a tool used for exploring; a probe.
3. Any instrument used in exploring or sounding a wound, a cavity in a tooth, etc.

The act of imploring or an earnest supplication.

1. To plead with someone to do something: "The tenants implored their landlord not to sell the house.
2. To beg or to pray for something urgently, to entreat.
3. Etymology: from Latin implorare "to call for help, to beseech"; originally, "to invoke with weeping"; from in-, "upon" + plorare, "to weep, to cry out".

1. Someone who implores (begs urgently or piteously, as for aid or mercy).
2. Anyone who beseeches or who entreats.

1. Earnestly asking for something, as with an imploring look.
2. Appealing in supplication; beseeching: "We implored the court to have mercy."
3. To beg for urgently; to entreat.