Miserable

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Very uncomfortable or unhappy; wretched.
  • adj. Causing or accompanied by great discomfort or distress: a miserable climate.
  • adj. Mean or shameful; contemptible: a miserable trick.
  • adj. Wretchedly inadequate: lived in a miserable shack; fed the prisoners miserable rations.
  • adj. Of poor quality; inferior: miserable handicraft.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. In a state of misery: very sad, ill, or poor.
  • adj. Very bad (at something); unskilled, incompetent.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Very unhappy; wretched; living in misery.
  • adj. Causing unhappiness or misery.
  • adj. Worthless; mean; despicable
  • adj. Avaricious; niggardly; miserly.
  • n. A miserable person.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Unhappy; wretched; hapless.
  • Causing or attended by suffering or unhappiness; distressing; doleful: as, a miserable lot or condition; miserable weather.
  • Manifesting misery; indicative of want or suffering; shocking; pitiable: as, a miserable hut; to be covered with miserable rags; miserable looks.
  • Of wretched character or quality; without value or merit; very poor; mean; worthless: as, a miserable soil; a miserable performer or performance; a miserable subterfuge.
  • Covetous; miserly; niggardly.
  • Compassionate; merciful; commiserating.
  • Synonyms Distressed, forlorn, disconsolate, afflicted, pitiable. See affliction.
  • n. An unfortunate, unhappy creature; a wretch.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. of the most contemptible kind
  • adj. deserving or inciting pity
  • adj. contemptibly small in amount
  • adj. characterized by physical misery
  • adj. very unhappy; full of misery
  • adj. of very poor quality or condition
  • Equivalent
    contemptible    unfortunate    stingy    meagre    scrimpy    meagerly    meager    uncomfortable    unhappy    inferior   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    wretched    pitiable    forlorn    abject    worthless    mean    despicable    avaricious    niggardly    miserly   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    wretched    sad    poor    stupid    lonely    dirty