'Miserable' definitions:
Definition of 'miserable'
(from WordNet)
adjective
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]
adjective
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]
adjective
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]
adjective
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]
adjective
Characterized by physical misery; "a wet miserable weekend"; "spent a wretched night on the floor" [syn: miserable, wretched]
adjective
Definition of 'Miserable'
From: GCIDE
- Miserable \Mis"er*a*ble\, n. A miserable person. [Obs.] --Sterne. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'miserable'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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