Miserable

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Miserable \Mis"er*a*ble\, a. [F. mis['e]rable, L. miserabilis,
     fr. miserari to lament, pity, fr. miser wretched. See
     {Miser}.]
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     1. Very unhappy; wretched; living in misery.
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              What hopes delude thee, miserable man? --Dryden.
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     2. Causing unhappiness or misery.
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              What 's more miserable than discontent? --Shak.
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     3. Worthless; mean; despicable; as, a miserable fellow; a
        miserable dinner.
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              Miserable comforters are ye all.      --Job xvi. 2.
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     4. Avaricious; niggardly; miserly. [Obs.] --Hooker.
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     Syn: Abject; forlorn; pitiable; wretched.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Miserable \Mis"er*a*ble\, n.
     A miserable person. [Obs.] --Sterne.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

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

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  165 Moby Thesaurus words for "miserable":
     abject, abominable, adverse, afflicted, antagonistic, arrant,
     atrocious, awful, bad, base, beggarly, beneath contempt, cheap,
     cheerless, cheesy, common, conflicting, contemptible, contrary,
     counter, counteractive, crummy, crushed, cut up, debased,
     deep-troubled, degraded, dejected, deplorable, depraved, depressed,
     desolate, despairing, desperate, despicable, despondent,
     detrimental, difficult, dirty, disconsolate, discontented,
     disgraceful, disgusting, dismal, doleful, dolorous, downhearted,
     execrable, flagrant, forlorn, foul, fulsome, gaudy, gimcracky,
     gloomy, glum, grave, grim, gross, hard, harmful, heart-stricken,
     heart-struck, heartbroken, heartsick, heinous, hopeless, hostile,
     humorless, in bad humor, in opposition, inadequate, inclement,
     inconvenient, infestive, inimical, joyless, lachrymose, lamentable,
     little, lousy, low, low-down, low-spirited, lumpen, mangy, mean,
     measly, melancholy, meretricious, mirthless, monstrous, mournful,
     nefarious, not easy, obnoxious, odious, opposed, opposing,
     opposite, out of humor, out of sorts, paltry, pathetic, petty,
     piteous, pitiable, pitiful, pleasureless, poky, poor, rank,
     reptilian, rigorous, rotten, rubbishy, rueful, ruthful, sad,
     scabby, scrubby, scruffy, scummy, scurvy, scuzzy, shabby, shameful,
     shoddy, sinister, small, sorrowful, sorry, sorryish, squalid,
     stressful, stricken, suicidal, tearful, terrible, trashy,
     troublesome, troublous, trumpery, trying, two-for-a-cent,
     two-for-a-penny, twopenny, twopenny-halfpenny, uncheerful,
     uncheery, unfavorable, unhappy, unjoyful, unmentionable,
     unmirthful, unpleasant, unsmiling, untoward, unworthy, valueless,
     vile, woebegone, woeful, worthless, wretched