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English Dictionary: miserable	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
miserable adj very unhappy; full of misery; "he felt depressed and miserable"; "a message of hope for suffering humanity"; "wretched prisoners huddled in stinking cages" Synonym(s): miserable, suffering, wretched 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" Synonym(s): hapless, miserable, misfortunate, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor, wretched 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" Synonym(s): abject, low, low-down, miserable, scummy, scurvy of very poor quality or condition; "deplorable housing conditions in the inner city"; "woeful treatment of the accused"; "woeful errors of judgment" Synonym(s): deplorable, execrable, miserable, woeful, wretched characterized by physical misery; "a wet miserable weekend"; "spent a wretched night on the floor" Synonym(s): miserable, wretched 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" Synonym(s): measly, miserable, paltry
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Miserable \Mis"erable\, a. [F. mis[82]rable, L. miserabilis, fr. miserari to lament, pity, fr. miser wretched. See {Miser}.] 1. Very unhappy; wretched. What hopes delude thee, miserable man? --Dryden. 2. Causing unhappiness or misery. What 's more miserable than discontent? --Shak. 3. Worthless; mean; despicable; as, a miserable fellow; a miserable dinner. Miserable comforters are ye all. --Job xvi. 2. 4. Avaricious; niggardly; miserly. [Obs.] --Hooker. Syn: Abject; forlorn; pitiable; wretched.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Miserable \Mis"erable\, n. A miserable person. [Obs.] --Sterne.