Mine with uranium left outside even though deplorable (7)
I believe the answer is:
pitiful
'deplorable' is the definition.
(synonyms)
'mine with uranium left outside even though' is the wordplay.
'mine' becomes 'pit' (as in a mining pit).
'with' says to put letters next to each other.
'uranium left' becomes 'ul' (this might be a standard abbreviation which I don't know about).
'outside' means one lot of letters goes inside another (some letters go outside others).
'even though' becomes 'if'.
'pit'+'ul'='pitul'
'pitul' enclosing 'if' is 'PITIFUL'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for pitiful that I've seen before include "Distressing" , "Tiny" , "in such a sorry state" , "Miserable" , "base" .)