miserable
wretchedly unhappy, uneasy, or uncomfortable: miserable victims of war.
wretchedly poor; needy.
of wretched character or quality; contemptible: a miserable villain.
attended with or causing misery: a miserable existence.
manifesting misery.
worthy of pity; deplorable: a miserable failure.
Origin of miserable
1synonym study For miserable
Other words for miserable
Opposites for miserable
Other words from miserable
- mis·er·a·ble·ness, noun
- mis·er·a·bly, adverb
- qua·si-mis·er·a·ble, adjective
- qua·si-mis·er·a·bly, adverb
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How to use miserable in a sentence
Misery may love company, but when everyone is more or less miserable, we need some kind of relief valve.
She had never hiked or camped because her allergies make her miserable outdoors.
This AI whiz could be the next Elon Musk or Steve Jobs, but first she has to navigate being 18 | Taylor Telford | November 5, 2020 | Washington PostI’m worried I’ll end up cold and miserable, sitting alone in the woods and unable to enjoy the experience.
Though Minnesota’s good fortune this season is proof that can always change, the T-Wolves also prove you have to suffer through some pretty miserable basketball to give yourself enough chances for that luck to reverse.
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Their first attempt to unseat the House speaker failed miserably, so why not try again?
So, miserably, he resorted to the autocue, and even this he turned into a disaster.
And, crucially, what next for these so-called lost women, for the lost girls who have been failed so miserably?
Most of those states, moreover, failed miserably in basic functions.
I had expected Alaska to be miserably cold, with howling winds and fierce storms.
Visiting the Arctic Circle…Before It’s Irreversibly Changed | Terry Greene Sterling | April 1, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTFew of us ever made a proper use of models, and nearly all of us have miserably trained hands.
The Salvaging Of Civilisation | H. G. (Herbert George) WellsThe huts of the poor people are miserably bad, being mostly built of clay and wood, and threatening to fall down every moment.
A Woman's Journey Round the World | Ida PfeifferControve, compose or invent tunes, foule fayle, fail miserably.
Chaucer's Works, Volume 1 (of 7) -- Romaunt of the Rose; Minor Poems | Geoffrey ChaucerThose two men are to-day holding their offices by the vote of a miserably lean minority of the people of the State of Tennessee.
Portrait and Biography of Parson Brownlow, The Tennessee Patriot | William Gannaway BrownlowHe looks as pale as the visard of the ghost which cries so miserably at the Theatre, like an oyster-wife, "Hamlet, revenge!"
Shakespearean Playhouses | Joseph Quincy Adams
British Dictionary definitions for miserable
/ (ˈmɪzərəbəl, ˈmɪzrə-) /
unhappy or depressed; wretched
causing misery, discomfort, etc: a miserable life
contemptible: a miserable villain
sordid or squalid: miserable living conditions
Scot, Australian and NZ mean; stingy
(pejorative intensifier): you miserable wretch
Origin of miserable
1Derived forms of miserable
- miserableness, noun
- miserably, adverb
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