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Definition of 'miserable'

Adjective

  1. very unhappy; full of misery; "he felt depressed and miserable"; "a message of hope for suffering humanity"; "wretched prisoners huddled in stinking cages"
       Synonyms: 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"
       Synonyms: 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"
       Synonyms: 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"
       Synonyms: deplorable execrable woeful wretched
  5. characterized by physical misery; "a wet miserable weekend"; "spent a wretched night on the floor"
       Synonyms: 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"
       Synonyms: measly paltry


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