Dictionary Definition
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]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
Adjective
- In a state of misery:
very sad, ill, or poor.
- George Bernard Shaw
- The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure is occupation.
- George Bernard Shaw
- Very bad (at something);
unskilled, incompetent.
- He's O.K. at some sports, like tennis, but he's just miserable at football.
Translations
in a state of misery
- Czech: nešťastný, bědný
- French: misérable
- German: erbärmlich, jämmerlich
- Greek: άθλιος, ελεεινός, αξιοθρήνητος
- Old English: earm
- Romanian: mizerie
- Russian: несчастный
very bad (at)
Spanish
Extensive Definition
Miserable may refer to
- Mr. Miserable, a children's book by Roger Hargreaves
- Miserable failure, the first political Google bomb
- Miserable (song), a single by Lit
See also
- Les Misérables a novel by Victor Hugo
- ''Les Misérables, a musical on the novel.
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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