misrable

Adjective

miserable (comparative more miserable, superlative most miserable)

1. In a state of misery: very sad, ill, or poor.
   • Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn...1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter I, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, →OCLC; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans...

   Synonyms:

   atrabiliary, atrabilious, blitheless, dispirited, blue, bummed out, chapfallen, cheerless, chopfallen, crestfallen

2. Very bad (at something); unskilled, incompetent; hopeless.
   • He's good at some sports, like tennis, but he's just miserable at football.

   Synonyms:

   amateurish, backwards, bad, bungling, clumsy, ham-fisted, ham-handed, inapt, incapable, incompetent

3. Of the weather, extremely unpleasant due to being cold, wet, overcast, etc.

   Synonyms:

   cheerless, comfortless, bleak, dark, morose, depressing, desolate, dire, disconsolate, dismal

4. Wretched; worthless; mean; contemptible.
   • a miserable sinner

   Synonyms:

   abject, filthy, base, beggarly, blameworthy, carrion, cheap, choical, contemptible, cringing

5. (obsolete) Causing unhappiness or misery.
   • For what's more miserable than discontent?c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]. Epilogue.”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […]...

   Synonyms:

   atrabiliary, atrabilious, deplorable, depressing, distressing, grievous, heartbreaking, heartrending, lamentable, lachrymable

6. (obsolete) Avaricious; niggardly; miserly.
   • the liberal-hearted man is by the opinion of the prodigal miserable, and by the judgment of the miserable lavish[1594], Richard Hooker, edited by J[ohn] S[penser], Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Iohn Windet, […], →OCLC, (please specify the page)

   Synonyms:

   as tight as Dick's hatband, cheap, cheeseparing, chintzy, close, close as wax, close-fisted, illiberal, mean, miserly

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