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/mˈɪzərəbəl/ /mˈɪzrəbəl/ Listen

adjective

Miserable adj.

Very unhappy; wretched; living in misery. "What hopes delude thee, miserable man?"

Causing unhappiness or misery. "What 's more miserable than discontent?"

Worthless; mean; despicable; as, a miserable fellow; a miserable dinner. "Miserable comforters are ye all."

Avaricious; niggardly; miserly. (Obs.)

Synonyms: Abject; forlorn; pitiable; wretched.

noun

Miserable n. A miserable person. (Obs.)

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Etymology of 'Miserable'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Miserable" Quotes from Famous Books

... Means the State of the Church in North Carolina is very miserable; which is of greatest Moment, and requires the most charitable Direction and Christian Assistance; not only for the Conversion of the Indians and Baptism of Negroes there, but for the Christening and Recovery ...

— The Present State of Virginia • Hugh Jones

... He's always tied to a stake on a rope just long enough to go across the river. His only friends are the crocodiles, who say 'Hello' to him once a week if they don't forget. Really, he's the most miserable animal I've ever come across. When I left I promised I'd try to help him someday, although I couldn't see how. The rope around his neck is about the biggest, toughest rope you can imagine, with so many knots it would take days ...

— My Father's Dragon • Ruth Stiles Gannett

... in this country, and, with scarce an exception, the deadliest opponents to the very indepindence that we have benn jist spakin about. For the most part, they are filled chock full of a pack of miserable toadies to the governmint, which manages to gather into them a pack of rottin, ladin Irishmin who can make speeches, dhrink 'the day and all who honor it,' sing 'God save the Queen,' and talk English blatherskite about the glory of the impire, the army and navy, and everythin else ...

— Ridgeway - An Historical Romance of the Fenian Invasion of Canada • Scian Dubh

... am not able," exclaimed Marianne, with a loud burst of anguish, "I have but six francs; if I give them, nothing is left me, and my pension is not paid until six weeks. But even were I to give all I have, my miserable six francs would not ...

— The Empress Josephine • Louise Muhlbach

... Prince Geoffrey, another of the king's sons, came to a miserable end. He was killed in a tournament. He was riding furiously in the tournament in the midst of a great number of other horsemen, when he was unfortunately thrown from his steed, and trodden to death on the ...

— Richard I - Makers of History • Jacob Abbott

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