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miserable meaning and definition
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Definition of miserable (adjective)
- very unhappy; full of misery
- 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
- of the most contemptible kind
- of very poor quality or condition
- "deplorable housing conditions in the inner city"; "woeful treatment of the accused"; "woeful errors of judgment"
- synonyms: deplorable, execrable, woeful, wretched
- characterized by physical misery
- "a wet miserable weekend"; "spent a wretched night on the floor"
- synonyms: wretched
- contemptibly small in amount
Source: Princeton University Wordnet