miserableadjective
uk/ˈmɪz.ər.ə.bəl/us/ˈmɪz.ɚ.ə.bəl/miserable adjective (UNHAPPY)
B1 very unhappy:
She's miserable living on her own.
B2 unpleasant and causing unhappiness:
miserable weather
What a miserable existence! How could anyone live in such awful conditions?
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- She has a miserable existence living with him.
- Mark always has such a miserable expression on his face.
- He's a miserable old git.
- When I'm feeling miserable I go shopping and spoil myself - a couple of new dresses always make me feel better.
- She's a miserable old trout who complains about everything.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Feeling sad and unhappy
- (down) in the dumps idiom
- a dog's life idiom
- a long face idiom
- abject
- be cut up idiom
- be down in the mouth idiom
- be in a funk idiom
- bruised
- distressed
- dog
- doleful
- dour
- miserably
- moody
- mope
- mope around (somewhere)
- morose
- mournful
- the doldrums
- wretched
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Saddening, shocking and upsetting
miserable adjective (NOT GOOD)
C2 [ before noun ] used to emphasize the low quality of value of something:
The book was a miserable failure.
informal She only offered me a miserable $20 for my old phone.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Costing little or no money
- bargain
- bargain bin
- cheap rate
- cheaply
- cut-price
- downscale
- economy-size
- knock-down
- low-cost
- low-rent
- mass market
- nothing
- offer
- reasonably
- snip
- something
- song
- steal
- tacky
- trinket
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