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Miserable
see synonyms of miserableAdjective
1. miserable, suffering, wretched
very unhappy; full of misery
Example Sentences:'he felt depressed and miserable''a message of hope for suffering humanity''wretched prisoners huddled in stinking cages'
2. hapless, miserable, misfortunate, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor, wretched
deserving or inciting pity
Example Sentences:'a hapless victim''miserable victims of war''the shabby room struck her as extraordinarily pathetic''piteous appeals for help''pitiable homeless children''a pitiful fate''Oh, you poor thing''his poor distorted limbs''a wretched life'
3. abject, low, low-down, miserable, scummy, scurvy
of the most contemptible kind
Example Sentences:'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'
4. deplorable, execrable, miserable, woeful, wretched
of very poor quality or condition
Example Sentences:'deplorable housing conditions in the inner city''woeful treatment of the accused''woeful errors of judgment'
5. miserable, wretched
characterized by physical misery
Example Sentences:'a wet miserable weekend''spent a wretched night on the floor'
contemptibly small in amount
Example Sentences:'a measly tip''the company donated a miserable $100 for flood relief''a paltry wage''almost depleted his miserable store of dried beans'
WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.
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Miserable
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