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miserable
adjective
1 miserable
Very unhappy; full of misery:
— He felt depressed and miserable.
synonyms: suffering, wretched.
2 miserable
Deserving or inciting pity:
— Miserable victims of war.
synonyms: hapless, misfortunate, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor, wretched.
Roget 643:
unimportant;
of little account,
of small account,
of no account,
of little importance,
of no importance
etc.
642;
immaterial;
unessential,
nonessential;
indifferent.
subordinate
etc.
(inferior)
34;
mediocre
etc.
(average)
29;
passable,
fair,
respectable,
tolerable,
commonplace;
uneventful,
mere,
common;
ordinary
etc.
(habitual)
613;
inconsiderable,
so-so,
insignificant,
inappreciable.
trifling,
trivial;
slight,
slender,
light,
flimsy,
frothy,
idle;
puerile
etc.
(foolish)
499;
airy,
shallow;
weak
etc.
160;
powerless
etc.
158;
frivolous,
petty,
niggling;
piddling,
peddling;
fribble†,
inane,
ridiculous,
farcical;
finical,
finikin†;
fiddle-faddle,
fingle-fangle†,
namby-pamby,
wishy-washy,
milk and water.
poor,
paltry,
pitiful;
contemptible
etc.
(contempt)
930;
sorry,
mean,
meager,
shabby,
miserable,
wretched,
vile,
scrubby,
scrannel†,
weedy,
niggardly,
scurvy,
putid†,
beggarly,
worthless,
twopennyhalfpenny,
cheap,
trashy,
catchpenny,
gimcrack,
trumpery;
one-horse [U.S.].
not worth the pains,
not worth while,
not worth mentioning,
not worth speaking of,
not worth a thought,
not worth a curse,
not worth a straw
etc.
n.;
beneath notice,
unworthy of notice,
beneath regard,
unworthy of regard,
beneath consideration,
unworthy of consideration;
de lana caprina [It];
vain
etc.
(useless)
645.
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Roget 828:
in pain,
in a state of pain,
full of pain
etc.
n.;
suffering
etc.
v.;
pained,
afflicted,
worried,
displeased
etc.
830;
aching,
griped,
sore
etc.
(physical pain)
378;
on the rack,
in limbo;
between hawk and buzzard.
uncomfortable,
uneasy;
ill at ease;
in a taking,
in a way;
disturbed;
discontented
etc.
832;
out of humor
etc.
901.1;
weary
etc.
841.
heavy laden,
stricken,
crushed,
a prey to,
victimized,
ill-used.
unfortunate
etc.
(hapless)
735;
to be pitied,
doomed,
devoted,
accursed,
undone,
lost,
stranded;
fey.
unhappy,
infelicitous,
poor,
wretched,
miserable,
woe-begone;
cheerless
etc.
(dejected)
837;
careworn.
concerned,
sorry;
sorrowing,
sorrowful;
cut up,
chagrined,
horrified,
horror-stricken;
in grief,
plunged in grief,
a prey to grief
etc.
n.;
in tears
etc.
(lamenting)
839;
steeped to the lips in misery;
heart-stricken,
heart-broken,
heart-scalded;
broken-hearted;
in despair
etc.
859.
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Polish: mizerny, nędzny
3 miserable
4 miserable
5 miserable
Characterized by physical misery:
— A wet miserable weekend.
synonym: wretched.
6 miserable
Contemptibly small in amount:
— The company donated a miserable $100 for flood relief.
— Almost depleted his miserable store of dried beans.
synonyms: measly, paltry.
Polish: groszowy
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 ... show more.
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