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miserable
[ miz-er-uh-buhl, miz-ruh- ]
adjective
- wretchedly unhappy, uneasy, or uncomfortable:
miserable victims of war.
Synonyms: distressed, doleful, disconsolate, forlorn
Antonyms: happy
- wretchedly poor; needy.
Synonyms: destitute
Antonyms: wealthy
- of wretched character or quality; contemptible:
a miserable villain.
Synonyms: abject, low, mean, despicable
Antonyms: good
- attended with or causing misery:
a miserable existence.
- manifesting misery.
- worthy of pity; deplorable:
a miserable failure.
Synonyms: lamentable, pitiable
miserable
/ ˈmɪzərəbəl; ˈmɪzrə- /
adjective
- unhappy or depressed; wretched
- causing misery, discomfort, etc
a miserable life
- contemptible
a miserable villain
- sordid or squalid
miserable living conditions
- mean; stingy
- (pejorative intensifier)
you miserable wretch
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Derived Forms
- ˈmiserably, adverb
- ˈmiserableness, noun
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Other Words From
- miser·a·ble·ness noun
- miser·a·bly adverb
- quasi-miser·a·ble adjective
- quasi-miser·a·bly adverb
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Word History and Origins
Origin of miserable1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of miserable1
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Synonym Study
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Example Sentences
Despite being one of the most powerful men in the world, the king looks miserable.
The young people in Girls are miserable, peevish, depressed, hate their bodies, themselves, their life, and each other.
Like Donal, he requested to go to boarding school to escape his homelife; also like Donal, he was initially miserable there.
Millions of children in India endure miserable and difficult lives.
I was going along OK, but looking back, I was filled with anger and took it out on my first wife and made her life miserable.
U was an Usurer, a miserable elf; V was a Vintner, who drank all himself.
Madame and myself had just been regretting that we should have to pass the evening in this miserable hole of a town.
Or, if I escaped these dangers for a day or two, what could I expect but a miserable death of cold and hunger?
All the miserable stratagems they had been guilty of to win him; the dishonest plotting and planning.
Eight weary years have passed, and we have reached a miserable day in the month of November.
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