miserable

Plural: miserables

Adjective Satellite

• very unhappy; full of misery
  • "he felt depressed and miserable"
• deserving or inciting pity; ; ; - Galsworthy
  • "miserable victims of war"
• of the most contemptible kind
  • "his miserable treatment of his family"
  • "You miserable skunk!"
• of very poor quality or condition
• characterized by physical misery
  • "a wet miserable weekend"
• contemptibly small in amount
  • "the company donated a miserable $100 for flood relief"
  • "almost depleted his miserable store of dried beans"

Adj

• In a state of misery: very sad, ill, or poor.
• Very bad (at something); unskilled, incompetent; hopeless.
• Of the weather, extremely unpleasant due to being cold, wet, overcast, etc.
• Wretched; worthless; mean; contemptible.
• Causing unhappiness or misery.
• Avaricious; niggardly; miserly.

Noun

• A miserable person; a wretch.
• A state of misery or melancholy.

Examples

• a miserable sinner
• He's good at some sports, like tennis, but he's just miserable at football.

Synonyms

abject, deplorable, execrable, hapless, low, low-down, measly, misfortunate, paltry, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor, scummy, scurvy, suffering, woeful, wretched, acquisitive, amateurish, as tight as Dick's hatband, atrabiliary, atrabilious, avaricious, backwards, bad, base, beggarly, blameworthy, bleak, blitheless, blue, bummed out, bungling, carrion, chapfallen, cheap, cheerless, cheeseparing, chintzy, chopfallen, close, close as wax, close-fisted, clumsy, comfortless, contemptible, cormorant, covetous, crestfallen, cringing, cut up, damp, dark, dedecorous, degraded, dejected, depressed, depressing, deridable, derisible, desolate, despicable, despisable, despondent, dire, dirty, disconsolate, discreditable, disdainable, disgraceful, disgruntled, disheartened, dishonorable, dismal, disreputable, distressing, doleful, dolesome, down, down in the dumps, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, downsome, drear, drearisome, dreary, dreich, dull, edacious, elegiac, elegious, esurient, foolish, for the birds, forlorn, frivolous, futile, gayless, gloomsome, gloomy, glum, grasping, gray, greedy, grief-stricken, grieving, grievous, grim, groveling, ham-fisted, ham-handed, heartsick, heartsore, heavy-hearted, idle, ignoble, ignominious, ignorable, illiberal, immaterial, inapt, incapable, incompetent, inconsequential, inconsiderable, inconsolable, indifferent, inept, inexpert, infelicitous, inglorious, insignificant, jawfallen, joyless, lachrymable, lachrymose, lack-laughter, lame, lamentable, lamentful, laughable, like a fart in a windstorm, loathsome, low-spirited, ludicrous, lugubrious, lumpish, maladroit, meager, mean, mean-spirited, melancholic, melancholy, minor, mirthless, miserable, miserly, moody, mopey, morose, mournful, narrow-fisted, negligible, niggardly, nipcheese, no joke, nondescript, nothingburger, obscene, outrageous, parsimonious, passionate, pathetisad, peddling, penny-pinching, penny-wise, penurious, petty, picayune, picayunish, piddly, piggish, pissant, pitisome, plaintive, plebeian, pointless, putrid, querulous, rapacious, regrettable, reprehensible, reptile, reptilian, reptitious, ridiculous, risible, roynish, rueful, sad, saddened, saddening, saturnine, scald, scornworthy, scrooge-like, scrubby, selfish, shabby, shameful, sharp-set, shattered, silly, simple, slavish, sleazy, slight, slimy, solemn, somber, sombre, sordid, sorrow-ridden, sorrowful, sorrowsome, sorry, spiritless, still got one's communion money, stingy, sullen, sunless, swear, threnetic, threnetical, tight, tight as a tick, tight-fisted, tighter than Dick's hatband, tin-pot, tragic, trashy, trifling, triste, tristful, trivial, two-bit, ugly, unable, uncheerful, uncheery, uncommendable, unconsolable, uncool, ungenerous, ungiving, unhappy, unimportant, unlively, unmentionable, unmerry, unprofessional, unqualified, unskillful, unsophisticated, unwashed, unweighty, unworthy, upsetting, vain, vile, voracious, vulgar, weak, wintry, wistful, woe, woebegone, worthless

Related Words

miser, misery

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