miserable

mis·er·a·ble

M0334400 (mĭz′ər-ə-bəl, mĭz′rə-)adj.1. Very uncomfortable or unhappy; wretched.2. Causing or accompanied by great discomfort or distress: a miserable climate.3. Mean or shameful; contemptible: a miserable trick.4. Wretchedly inadequate: lived in a miserable shack; fed the prisoners miserable rations.5. Of poor quality; inferior: miserable handicraft.

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[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin miserābilis, pitiable, from miserārī, to pity, from miser, wretched.]

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mis′er·a·ble n.mis′er·a·ble·ness n.mis′er·a·bly adv.

miserable

(ˈmɪzərəbəl; ˈmɪzrə-) adj1. unhappy or depressed; wretched2. causing misery, discomfort, etc: a miserable life. 3. contemptible: a miserable villain. 4. sordid or squalid: miserable living conditions. 5. Scot and Austral and NZ mean; stingy6. (pejorative intensifier): you miserable wretch. [C16: from Old French, from Latin miserābilis worthy of pity, from miserārī to pity, from miser wretched] ˈmiserableness n ˈmiserably adv

mis•er•a•ble

(ˈmɪz ər ə bəl, ˈmɪz rə-)

adj. 1. wretchedly unhappy or uncomfortable: a miserable beggar. 2. contemptible: a miserable villain. 3. attended with or causing misery: a miserable existence. 4. manifesting misery. 5. worthy of pity: a miserable failure. [1375–1425; late Middle English < Latin miserābilis=miserā(rī) to pity (derivative of miser wretched) + -bilis -ble] mis′er•a•ble•ness, n. mis′er•a•bly, adv.

Thesaurus

Adj.	1.	miserable - very unhappy; full of misery; "he felt depressed and miserable"; "a message of hope for suffering humanity"; "wretched prisoners huddled in stinking cages"suffering, wretchedunhappy - experiencing or marked by or causing sadness or sorrow or discontent; "unhappy over her departure"; "unhappy with her raise"; "after the argument they lapsed into an unhappy silence"; "had an unhappy time at school"; "the unhappy (or sad) news"; "he looks so sad"
	2.	miserable - 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"hapless, misfortunate, pathetic, piteous, poor, pitiable, pitiful, wretchedunfortunate - not favored by fortune; marked or accompanied by or resulting in ill fortune; "an unfortunate turn of events"; "an unfortunate decision"; "unfortunate investments"; "an unfortunate night for all concerned"
	3.	miserable - 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"abject, low-down, scummy, scurvy, lowcontemptible - deserving of contempt or scorn
	4.	miserable - of very poor quality or condition; "deplorable housing conditions in the inner city"; "woeful treatment of the accused"; "woeful errors of judgment"execrable, wretched, deplorable, woefulinferior - of low or inferior quality
	5.	miserable - characterized by physical misery; "a wet miserable weekend"; "spent a wretched night on the floor"wretcheduncomfortable - providing or experiencing physical discomfort; "an uncomfortable chair"; "an uncomfortable day in the hot sun"
	6.	miserable - 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"measly, paltrymeager, meagerly, meagre, scrimpy, stingy - deficient in amount or quality or extent; "meager resources"; "meager fare"

miserable

adjective1. sad, down, low, depressed, distressed, gloomy, dismal, afflicted, melancholy, heartbroken, desolate, forlorn, mournful, dejected, broken-hearted, despondent, downcast, sorrowful, wretched, disconsolate, crestfallen, doleful, down in the dumps (informal), woebegone, down in the mouth (informal) She went to bed, miserable and depressed.
unhappy happy, cheerful2. dreary, bleak, desolate, sorry, depressing, foul, dismal, shabby, vile, unhappy, seedy, sordid, squalid, dilapidated, wretched, cheerless, godforsaken, uninviting, scungy (Austral. & N.Z.) There was nothing in this miserable place to distract him.3. unpleasant, wet, rainy, stormy, rotten (informal), dreich (Scot.) a grey, wet, miserable day4. sullen, sour, moody, grumpy, gloomy, sombre, bad-tempered, glum, surly, sulky, taciturn, ill-tempered, humourless, lugubrious, cantankerous, grouchy, peevish, saturnine He always was a miserable man. He never spoke to anyone.5. pathetic, low, sorry, disgraceful, mean, shameful, shabby, abject, despicable, deplorable, lamentable, contemptible, scurvy, pitiable, detestable, piteous They have so far accepted a miserable 1,100 refugees from the former Yugoslavia.
pathetic respectable, admirable

miserable

adjective1. Suffering from usually prolonged anguish:woebegone, woeful, wretched.2. Having a painful ailment:afflicted, suffering, wretched.3. Of decidedly inferior quality:base, cheap, lousy, paltry, poor, rotten, shoddy, sleazy, trashy.Informal: cheesy.Slang: crummy, schlocky.nounA person living under very unhappy circumstances:loser, underdog, underprivileged, unfortunate, wretch.

Translations

痛苦的粗劣的贫乏的

miserable

(ˈmizərəbl) adjective1. very unhappy; She's been miserable since he went away. 難過的 痛苦的2. very poor in quantity or quality. The house was in a miserable condition. 極少的，極差的 粗劣的，贫乏的 ˈmiserably adverb 難過地, 極差地 悲惨地

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