Worthy of being deplored or lamented; lamentable;
causing grief; hence, sad; calamitous; grievous; wretched; as, life's
evils are deplorable.
Commonly thought or deemed; supposed; reputed; as, the putative father of a child. "His other putative (I dare not say feigned) friends." E. Hall. Thus things indifferent, being esteemed useful or pious, became customary, and then came for r...