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Miserable

Miserable Meaning & Definition
Miserable Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Miserable?

[adj] contemptibly small in amount; "a measly tip"; "the company donated a miserable $100 for flood relief"; "a paltry wage"; "almost depleted his miserable store of dried beans"
[adj] characterized by physical misery; "a wet miserable weekend"; "spent a wretched night on the floor"
[adj] of the most contemptible kind; "abject cowardice"; "a low stunt to pull"; "a low-down sneak"; "his miserable treatment of his family"; "You miserable skunk!"; "a scummy rabble"; "a scurvy trick"
[adj] deserving or inciting pity; "a hapless victim"; "miserable victims of war"; "the shabby room struck her as extraordinarily pathetic"- Galsworthy; "piteous appeals for help"; "pitiable homeless children"; "a pitiful fate"; "couldn't rescue the poor fellow"; "his poor distorted limbs"; "a wretched life"
[adj] very unhappy; full of misery; "he felt depressed and miserable"; "a message of hope for suffering humanity"; "wretched prisoners huddled in stinking cages"
[adj] of very poor quality or condition; "deplorable housing conditions in the inner city"; "woeful treatment of the accused"; "woeful errors of judgment"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Miserable: abject | contemptible | deplorable | execrable | hapless | inferior | low | low-down | meager | meagerly | meagre | measly | misfortunate | paltry | pathetic | piteous | pitiable | pitiful | poor | scummy | scurvy | suffering | uncomfortable | unfortunate | unhappy | woeful | wretched

Related Terms | Find terms related to Miserable: abject | abominable | adverse | afflicted | antagonistic | arrant | atrocious | awful | bad | base | beggarly | beneath contempt | cheap | cheerless | cheesy | common | conflicting | contemptible | contrary | counter | counteractive | crummy | crushed | cut up | debased | deep-troubled | degraded | dejected | deplorable | depraved | depressed | desolate | despairing | desperate | despicable | despondent | detrimental | difficult | dirty | disconsolate | discontented | disgraceful | disgusting | dismal | doleful | dolorous | downhearted | execrable | flagrant | forlorn | foul | fulsome | gaudy | gimcracky | gloomy | glum | grave | grim | gross | hard | harmful | heartbroken | heartsick | heart-stricken | heart-struck | heinous | hopeless | hostile | humorless | in bad humor | in opposition | inadequate | inclement | inconvenient | infestive | inimical | joyless | lachrymose | lamentable | little | lousy | low | low-down | low-spirited | lumpen | mangy | mean | measly | melancholy | meretricious | mirthless | monstrous | mournful | nefarious | not easy | obnoxious | odious | opposed | opposing | opposite | out of humor | out of sorts | paltry | pathetic | petty | piteous | pitiable | pitiful | pleasureless | poky | poor | rank | reptilian | rigorous | rotten | rubbishy | rueful | ruthful | sad | scabby | scrubby | scruffy | scummy | scurvy | scuzzy | shabby | shameful | shoddy | sinister | small | sorrowful | sorry | sorryish | squalid | stressful | stricken | suicidal | tearful | terrible | trashy | troublesome | troublous | trumpery | trying | two-for-a-cent | two-for-a-penny | twopenny | twopenny-halfpenny | uncheerful | uncheery | unfavorable | unhappy | unjoyful | unmentionable | unmirthful | unpleasant | unsmiling | untoward | unworthy | valueless | vile | woebegone | woeful | worthless | wretched

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Miserable In Webster's Dictionary

\Mis"er*a*ble\, a. [F. mis['e]rable, L. miserabilis, fr. miserari to lament, pity, fr. miser wretched. See {Miser}.] 1. Very unhappy; wretched. What hopes delude thee, miserable man? --Dryden. 2. Causing unhappiness or misery. What 's more miserable than discontent? --Shak. 3. Worthless; mean; despicable; as, a miserable fellow; a miserable dinner. Miserable comforters are ye all. --Job xvi. 2. 4. Avaricious; niggardly; miserly. [Obs.] --Hooker. Syn: Abject; forlorn; pitiable; wretched.
\Mis"er*a*ble\, n. A miserable person. [Obs.] --Sterne.

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