Miserable

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  • adjective. Very uncomfortable or unhappy; wretched.
  • adjective. Causing or accompanied by great discomfort or distress.
  • adjective. Mean or shameful; contemptible.
  • adjective. Wretchedly inadequate.
  • adjective. Of poor quality; inferior.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Unhappy; wretched; hapless.
  • Causing or attended by suffering or unhappiness; distressing; doleful: as, a miserable lot or condition; miserable weather.
  • Manifesting misery; indicative of want or suffering; shocking; pitiable: as, a miserable hut; to be covered with miserable rags; miserable looks.
  • Of wretched character or quality; without value or merit; very poor; mean; worthless: as, a miserable soil; a miserable performer or performance; a miserable subterfuge.
  • Covetous; miserly; niggardly.
  • Compassionate; merciful; commiserating.
  • Synonyms Distressed, forlorn, disconsolate, afflicted, pitiable. See affliction.
  • noun. An unfortunate, unhappy creature; a wretch.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A miserable person.
  • adjective. Very unhappy; wretched; living in misery.
  • adjective. Causing unhappiness or misery.
  • adjective. Worthless; mean; despicable
  • adjective. Avaricious; niggardly; miserly.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. In a state of misery: very sad, ill, or poor.
  • adjective. Very bad (at something); unskilled, incompetent.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. of the most contemptible kind
  • adjective. deserving or inciting pity
  • adjective. contemptibly small in amount
  • adjective. characterized by physical misery
  • adjective. very unhappy; full of misery
  • adjective. of very poor quality or condition
  • Word Usage
    "As for Ester, she prayed, in her clothes-press, thankfully for Dr. Douglass, more hopefully for Sadie, and knew not that a corner of the poor little letter which had slipped from Julia's hand and floated down the stream one summer morning, thereby causing her such a miserable, _miserable_ day, was lying at that moment in Dr. Douglass 'note-book, counted as the most precious of all his precious bits of paper."
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    dirty  lonely  poor  sad  stupid  
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