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Miserable

see synonyms of miserable

Adjective

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'

6. measly, miserable, paltry

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.


Miserable

see synonyms of miserable
adjective
1. 
unhappy or depressed; wretched
2. 
causing misery, discomfort, etc
a miserable life
3. 
contemptible
a miserable villain
4. 
sordid or squalid
miserable living conditions
5. Scottish, Australian and New Zealand
mean; stingy
6. 
(pejorative intensifier)
you miserable wretch

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Miserable

see synonyms of miserable
adjective
1. 
in a condition of misery; wretched, unhappy, suffering, etc.
2. 
causing misery, discomfort, or suffering
miserable weather
3. 
bad; inferior; inadequate
a miserable performance
4. 
pitiable
5. 
shameful; disgraceful
noun
6.  Obsolete
a miserable person

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.


Miserable

see synonyms of miserable
adj.
1. Very uncomfortable or unhappy; wretched.
2. Causing or accompanied by great discomfort or distress: a miserable climate.
3. Mean or shameful; contemptible: a miserable trick.
4. Wretchedly inadequate: lived in a miserable shack; fed the prisoners miserable rations.
5. Of poor quality; inferior: miserable handicraft.

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