miserable

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mis·er·a·ble

(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.

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

mis′er·a·ble n.

mis′er·a·ble·ness n.

mis′er·a·bly adv.

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miserable

(ˈmɪzərəbəl; ˈmɪzrə-)

adj

1. unhappy or depressed; wretched

2. 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; stingy

6. (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

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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.

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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, wretched unhappy - 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, wretched unfortunate - 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, low contemptible - 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, woeful inferior - of low or inferior quality
	5.	miserable - characterized by physical misery; "a wet miserable weekend"; "spent a wretched night on the floor" wretched uncomfortable - 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, paltry meager, meagerly, meagre, scrimpy, stingy - deficient in amount or quality or extent; "meager resources"; "meager fare"

miserable

adjective

1. 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, cheerful

2. 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 day

4. 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

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miserable

adjective

1. 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.

noun

A person living under very unhappy circumstances:

loser, underdog, underprivileged, unfortunate, wretch.

Translations

بائِستَعِيسٌزَهيد، ضَئيل

nešťastnýsklíčenýubohýbědnýmizerný

elendigmiserabelulykkelig

elend erbärmlich jämmerlich miserabel schofel

άθλιος αξιοθρήνητος δυστυχής ελεεινός

miserable mísero triste abatido infeliz

kurja

misérable malheureux mauvais pénible vide

nesretan

gyatranyomorultpocsék

ömurlegurvansæll

miserabile orribile triste afflitto disgraziato

惨めな

비참한

labai nelaimingaspasigailėtinas

nelaimīgsnožēlojamstrūcīgs

mizerie

bedennesrečenslab

eländig

ทำให้หดหู่ใจ

berbatçok mutsuzkötü sefil

khốn khổ

痛苦的粗劣的贫乏的

miserable

[ˈmɪzərəbl] ADJ

1. (= unhappy) [person] → abatido, con el ánimo por los suelos; [face] → triste
to feel miserable → tener el ánimo por los suelos, sentirse abatido or deprimido
Sheila was looking miserable → a Sheila se la veía abatida
don't look so miserable! → ¡alegra esa cara!
to make sb miserable → hacer a algn sentirse deprimido
my job was making me really miserable → mi trabajo me estaba deprimiendo

2. (= depressing) [place, life, weather] → deprimente; [childhood] → desdichado, infeliz
it was wet and miserable outside → fuera hacía un tiempo lluvioso y deprimente
it was a miserable business → era un asunto deprimente or lamentable
to make sb's life miserable; make life miserable for sb → amargar la vida a algn
to have a miserable time → pasarlo mal, pasarlo fatal

3. (= wretched) [hovel, shantytown, beggar] → mísero
the miserable conditions they were living in → la miseria en la que vivían

4. (= contemptible, mean) you miserable (old) thing! → ¡viejo ruin!

5. (= paltry) [offer] → mísero, mezquino; [pay] → miserable; [meal] → triste, mísero
a miserable two pounds → dos miserables libras
they gave me a miserable piece of bread for lunch → me dieron un triste trozo de pan para comer

6. (= complete) to be a miserable failure [attempt, play] → ser un fracaso espantoso or rotundo, ser un triste fracaso; [person] → ser un fracaso total

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miserable

[ˈmɪzərəb^əl] adj

[person] (= unhappy) → malheureux/euse
His job was making him miserable → Son travail le rendait malheureux.
You're looking miserable → Tu as l'air malheureux.
to feel miserable → ne pas avoir le moral
I'm feeling miserable → Je n'ai pas le moral.

[person] (= bad-tempered) → maussade

[weather] → maussade; [day] → maussade
The weather was miserable → Il faisait un temps maussade.
It was miserable and cold → Il faisait un temps maussade et froid.

(= wretched) [place, situation] → misérable

(= paltry) → misérable
They donate a miserable seven million pounds a year → Leur donations s'élèvent à sept misérables millions de livres par an., Ils donnent la somme misérable de sept millions de livres par an.
Our speed was a miserable 2.2 knots → Nous filions la vitesse misérable de 2,2 nœuds à l'heure.

[failure] → lamentable
to be a miserable failure → être un échec lamentable

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

miserable

adj

(= unhappy) person → unglücklich, trostlos; colour → trist; (= ill-tempered) → griesgrämig; I feel miserable today → ich fühle mich heute elend or (ill) → miserabel; miserable with hunger/cold → elend vor Hunger/Kälte; a miserable old hag → eine missmutige alte Hexe; to make somebody miserable → jdm Kummer machen or bereiten, jdn unglücklich machen; to make life miserable for somebody, to make somebody’s life miserable → jdm das Leben zur Qual machen

(= wretched, causing distress) headache, cold, weather → grässlich, fürchterlich; life, existence, hovel, spectacle → erbärmlich, elend, jämmerlich; place → öde, trostlos; he died a miserable death → er ist elend or jämmerlich zugrunde or zu Grunde gegangen

(= contemptible) → miserabel, jämmerlich, erbärmlich; person → gemein, erbärmlich; treatment, behaviour → gemein; sum, failure → kläglich, jämmerlich; a miserable £3 → mickrige 3 Pfund (inf); you miserable little wretch! → du mieses kleines Biest!, du Miststück! (inf); to be a miserable failure → kläglich versagen

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miserable

[ˈmɪz/ər/əbl] adj

a. (unhappy) → infelice; (deplorable, sight, failure) → penoso/a
to feel miserable → sentirsi avvilito/a or giù di morale (physically) → sentirsi a terra
don't look so miserable! → non fare quella faccia da funerale!

b. (filthy, wretched) → miserabile; (unpleasant, weather) → deprimente

c. (contemptible) → miserabile
a miserable £2 → 2 miserabili sterline

miserable

(ˈmizərəbl) adjective

1. very unhappy; She's been miserable since he went away.

2. very poor in quantity or quality. The house was in a miserable condition.

ˈmiserably adverb

miserable

→ تَعِيسٌ sklíčený elendig elend δυστυχής miserable kurja malheureux nesretan miserabile 惨めな 비참한 beroerd elendig marny miserável жалкий eländig ทำให้หดหู่ใจ sefil khốn khổ 痛苦的

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And will not he who has been shown to be the wickedest, be also the most miserable? and he who has tyrannized longest and most, most continually and truly miserable; although this may not be the opinion of men in general?

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It is a most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home.

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And no one could have helped hating such miserable monstrosities.

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I know that there are feelings in your nature that have never yet been called forth; I know, too, that in your present neglected lonely state you are and must be miserable. You have it in your power to raise two human beings from a state of actual suffering to such unspeakable beatitude as only generous, noble, self-forgetting love can give (for you can love me if you will); you may tell me that you scorn and detest me, but, since you have set me the example of plain speaking, I will answer that I do not believe you.

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Let the Tetons do their worst; they will not find a miserable and worn out trapper the loudest in his complaints, or his prayers."

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I only said to myself often, that I was an unfortunate dog, and born to be always miserable.

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