Miserable \Mis"er*a*ble\, a. [F. mis['e]rable, L. miserabilis,
fr. miserari to lament, pity, fr. miser wretched. See
Miser.]
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1. Very unhappy; wretched; living in misery.
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What hopes delude thee, miserable man? --Dryden.
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2. Causing unhappiness or misery.
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What 's more miserable than discontent? --Shak.
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3. Worthless; mean; despicable; as, a miserable fellow; a
miserable dinner.
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Miserable comforters are ye all. --Job xvi. 2.
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4. Avaricious; niggardly; miserly. [Obs.] --Hooker.
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Syn: Abject; forlorn; pitiable; wretched.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Miserable \Mis"er*a*ble\, n.
A miserable person. [Obs.] --Sterne.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
miserable
adj 1: very unhappy; full of misery; "he felt depressed and
miserable"; "a message of hope for suffering
humanity"; "wretched prisoners huddled in stinking
cages" [syn: suffering, wretched]
2: 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";
"Oh, you poor thing"; "his poor distorted limbs"; "a
wretched life" [syn: hapless, misfortunate, pathetic,
piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor, wretched]
3: 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" [syn: abject, low, low-down,
scummy, scurvy]
4: of very poor quality or condition; "deplorable housing
conditions in the inner city"; "woeful treatment of the
accused"; "woeful errors of judgment" [syn: deplorable,
execrable, woeful, wretched]
5: characterized by physical misery; "a wet miserable weekend";
"spent a wretched night on the floor" [syn: wretched]
6: 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" [syn: measly, paltry]
WordNet (r) 2.0
165 Moby Thesaurus words for "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, heart-stricken,
heart-struck, heartbroken, heartsick, 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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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