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miserable

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See also:misérable

English

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromMiddle Frenchmiserable, fromOld French, fromLatinmiserabilis, equivalent tomiser +‎-able.

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miserable (comparativemoremiserable,superlativemostmiserable)

  1. In a state ofmisery: verysad,ill, orpoor.
    Synonyms:seeThesaurus:sad
    • 1913,Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter I, inThe Lodger, London:Methuen,→OCLC; republished inNovels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.:Longmans, Green and Co., […],[1933],→OCLC,page0056:
      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, troubled Ellen.
    • 1918,W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter VII, inThe Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.:The Bobbs-Merrill Company,→OCLC:
      With some of it on the south and more of it on the north of the great main thoroughfare that connects Aldgate and the East India Docks, St. Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and mostmiserable parish in the East End of London.
    • 1910,George Bernard Shaw,A Treatise on Parents and Children‎[1]:
      The secret of beingmiserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation, because occupation means pre-occupation
  2. Verybad (at something);unskilled,incompetent;hopeless.
    Synonyms:seeThesaurus:unskilled
    He's good at some sports, like tennis, but he's justmiserable at football.
  3. Of theweather, extremelyunpleasant due to being cold, wet, overcast, etc.
    Synonyms:seeThesaurus:cheerless
  4. Wretched;worthless;mean;contemptible.
    Synonyms:seeThesaurus:despicable,Thesaurus:insignificant
    amiserable sinner
  5. (obsolete) Causingunhappiness ormisery.
    Synonyms:seeThesaurus:lamentable
  6. (obsolete)Avaricious;niggardly;miserly.
    Synonyms:seeThesaurus:stingy,Thesaurus:greedy
    • 1594–1597,Richard Hooker, edited byJ[ohn] S[penser],Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Will[iam] Stansby[for Matthew Lownes], published1611,→OCLC,(please specify the page):
      the liberal-hearted man is by the opinion of the prodigalmiserable, and by the judgment of themiserable lavish

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with nouns
  • miserable life
  • miserable condition
  • miserable state
  • miserable situation
  • miserable day
  • miserable time
  • miserable creature
  • miserable person
  • miserable child
  • miserable failure
  • miserable place
  • miserable world
  • miserable season
  • miserable year
  • miserable week
  • miserable experience
  • miserable feeling
  • miserable work
  • miserable town
  • miserable city
  • miserable job
  • miserable case
  • miserable excuse
  • miserable dog

miserable birds

Translations

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in a state of misery
very bad (at)
wretched

Noun

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miserable (pluralmiserables)

  1. A miserable person; awretch.
    • 1838,The Foreign Quarterly Review, volume21, page181:
      Dona Carmen repaired to the balcony to chat and jest with, and at, thesemiserables, who stopped before the door to rest in their progress. All pretended poverty while literally groaning under the weight of their riches.
    • 2003, Richard C. Trexler,Reliving Golgotha: The Passion Play of Iztapalapa, pages46–47:
      The charge that those who played Jesus in these representations were treated badly by the plays' Jews and Romans left one commissioner cold: in his view, these miserables were beaten much less severely by the players than they were by their actual lords orcuracas.
  2. (informal, in theplural, with definite article) A state ofmisery ormelancholy.
    • 1984, Barbara Wernecke Durkin,Oh, You Dundalk Girls, Can't You Dance the Polka?, page10:
      By 3:00 P.M. both DeeDee and Sandra's pants were thoroughly soaked, and this unhappy circumstance gave DeeDee a bad case of themiserables.

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing fromLatinmiserābilis.

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miserable m orf (masculine and feminine pluralmiserables)

  1. miserable

German

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miserable

  1. inflection ofmiserabel:
    1. strong/mixednominative/accusativefemininesingular
    2. strongnominative/accusativeplural
    3. weaknominative all-gendersingular
    4. weakaccusativefeminine/neutersingular

Spanish

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing fromLatinmiserābilis.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /miseˈɾable/[mi.seˈɾa.β̞le]
  • Rhymes:-able
  • Syllabification:mi‧se‧ra‧ble

Adjective

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miserable m orf (masculine and feminine pluralmiserables)

  1. miserable
  2. poor
  3. greedy,stingy

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