miserable
IPA: mˈɪzɝʌbʌɫ
noun
- A miserable person; a wretch.
- (informal, in the plural, with definite article) A state of misery or melancholy.
adjective
- In a state of misery: very sad, ill, or poor.
- Very bad (at something); unskilled, incompetent; hopeless.
- Of the weather, extremely unpleasant due to being cold, wet, overcast, etc.
- Wretched; worthless; mean; contemptible.
- (obsolete) Causing unhappiness or misery.
- (obsolete) Avaricious; niggardly; miserly.
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Examples of "miserable" in Sentences
- 'I'm perfectly _miserable_!' he concluded, with a strong emphasis on the 'miserable.'
- At one point during George W. Bush's presidency, a search for the word "miserable failure" called up his official White House biography as the first result.
- The term "miserable little compromise" was correctly directed at Gordon Brown's pitiful and insincere offers of minimal policy cooperation in order to resuscitate his dying government.
- BONN - Chancellor Helmut Kohl has laid part of the blame for what he called the miserable showing of his Christian Democrats (CDU) in weekend local elections on his ruling three-party coalition.
- She had occasionally given him a five-dollar bill to eke out what he termed his miserable pay, and now whenever he called he didn't spare hints that he was out of pocket, and that a further gift would be acceptable.
- _miserable pride_, very absurdly, for disdaine or disdained things cannot be said darke, but rather bright and cleere, because they be beholden and much looked vpon, and pride is rather enuied then pitied or miserable, vnlessse it be in Christian charitie, which helpeth not the terme in this case.
- I know, 'cried Eugénie de Netteville at last, standing at bay before him, her hands locked before her, her white lips quivering, when her cup of shame was full, and her one impulse left was to strike the man who had humiliated her-'I know that you and your puritanical wife are miserable -- _miserable_.
- I know, 'cried Eugénie de Netteville at last, standing at bay before him, her hands locked before her, her white lips quivering, when her cup of shame was full, and her one impulse left was to strike the man who had humiliated her --' I know that you and your puritanical wife are miserable -- _miserable_.
- Somerset administered two drams, one after the other, to the man with the chin-beard; who then, somewhat restored, began to confound himself in apologies for what he called his miserable nervousness, the result, he said, of a long course of dumb ague; and having taken leave with a hand that still sweated and trembled, he gingerly resumed his burthen and departed.
- As for Ester, she prayed, in her clothes-press, thankfully for Dr. Douglass, more hopefully for Sadie, and knew not that a corner of the poor little letter which had slipped from Julia's hand and floated down the stream one summer morning, thereby causing her such a miserable, _miserable_ day, was lying at that moment in Dr. Douglass 'note-book, counted as the most precious of all his precious bits of paper.
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