| 单词 | miserable |
| 释义 | miserable (once / 144 pages) 1adj 2adj 3adj Miserable goes way beyond sad — it means absolutely wretched. Someone who's miserable feels absolutely awful. If you were caught in the pouring rain, missed your own birthday party, and then got food poisoning, you wouldn't just feel bad. You'd be miserable — which means exceptionally unhappy. Victor Hugo's novel, Les Miserables ("The Miserable Ones"), is the story of people who live a wretched life filled with death and unhappiness. You might want to bring some tissues if you're heading to the musical! WORD FAMILYmiserable: miserableness, miserabler, miserablest, miserably+/misery: miserable, miseries USAGE EXAMPLESWhen I’m asked for my favourite inspirational scene, I nominate Tom Courtenay’s final, miserable act of defiance in The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner. The Guardian(Jan 01, 2017) Swansea’s miserable form continued in the first game following Bob Bradley’s firing. Seattle Times(Dec 31, 2016) Life was miserable without electricity or medical care. Seattle Times(Dec 31, 2016) 1 1adj very unhappy; full of misery he felt depressed and miserable Syn suffering, wretched unhappy experiencing or marked by or causing sadness or sorrow or discontent 2adj deserving or inciting pity miserable victims of war Syn hapless, misfortunate, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor, wretched unfortunate not favored by fortune; marked or accompanied by or resulting in ill fortune 3adj characterized by physical misery a wet miserable weekend Syn wretched uncomfortable providing or experiencing physical discomfort 4adj of very poor quality or condition 2Syn deplorable, execrable, woeful, wretched inferior of low or inferior quality adj contemptibly small in amount 3the company donated a miserable $100 for flood relief almost depleted his miserable store of dried beans Syn measly, paltry meager, meagerly, meagre, scrimpy, stingy deficient in amount or quality or extent adj of the most contemptible kind his miserable treatment of his family You miserable skunk! Syn abject, low, low-down, scummy, scurvy contemptible deserving of contempt or scorn |
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