What is "miserable" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What is "miserable" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "miserable": very unhappy; full of misery

Adjective

  • Meaning: very unhappy; full of misery
  • Example: he felt depressed and miserable a message of hope for suffering humanity wretched prisoners huddled in stinking cages
  • Synonyms: miserable suffering wretched
  • Similar: unhappy
  • Meaning of "miserable": deserving or inciting pity

    Adjective

  • Meaning: deserving or inciting pity
  • Example: 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
  • Synonyms: hapless miserable misfortunate pathetic piteous pitiable pitiful poor wretched
  • Similar: unfortunate
  • Meaning of "miserable": of the most contemptible kind

    Adjective

  • Meaning: of the most contemptible kind
  • Example: 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
  • Synonyms: abject low low-down miserable scummy scurvy
  • Similar: contemptible
  • Meaning of "miserable": of very poor quality or condition

    Adjective

  • Meaning: of very poor quality or condition
  • Example: deplorable housing conditions in the inner city woeful treatment of the accused woeful errors of judgment
  • Synonyms: deplorable execrable miserable woeful wretched
  • Similar: inferior
  • Meaning of "miserable": characterized by physical misery

    Adjective

  • Meaning: characterized by physical misery
  • Example: a wet miserable weekend spent a wretched night on the floor
  • Synonyms: miserable wretched
  • Similar: uncomfortable
  • Meaning of "miserable": contemptibly small in amount

    Adjective

  • Meaning: contemptibly small in amount
  • Example: a measly tip the company donated a miserable $100 for flood relief a paltry wage almost depleted his miserable store of dried beans
  • Synonyms: measly miserable paltry
  • Similar: meager meagerly meagre scrimpy stingy
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    miserable in English: miserable
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