miserable

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:
           {miserable}, {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}, {miserable}, {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}, {miserable},
       {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}, {miserable}, {woeful}, {wretched}]
    5: characterized by physical misery; "a wet miserable weekend";
       "spent a wretched night on the floor" [syn: {miserable},
       {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}, {miserable}, {paltry}]
    

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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Miserable \Mis"er*a*ble\, n.
   A miserable person. [Obs.] --Sterne.
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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