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miserable meaning and definition

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MISERABLE adjective

Definition of miserable (adjective)

  1. very unhappy; full of misery
    • "he felt depressed and miserable"; "a message of hope for suffering humanity"; "wretched prisoners huddled in stinking cages"
    • synonyms: 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"
    • synonyms: 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"
    • synonyms: abject, low, low-down, scummy, scurvy
  4. of very poor quality or condition
  5. characterized by physical misery
    • "a wet miserable weekend"; "spent a wretched night on the floor"
    • synonyms: 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"
    • synonyms: measly, paltry
Source: Princeton University Wordnet

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