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单词 miserable
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miserableadj.n.

Brit. /ˈmɪz(ə)rəbl/, U.S. /ˈmɪzər(ə)b(ə)l/, /ˈmɪzrəb(ə)l/
Forms: late Middle English–1600s myserable, late Middle English– miserable, 1500s meserabull, 1500s mezerabull, 1700s misarable; Scottish pre-1700 measerabill, pre-1700 meiserable, pre-1700 meserabill, pre-1700 meserable, pre-1700 messerabill, pre-1700 misarable, pre-1700 miserabell, pre-1700 miserabil, pre-1700 miserabile, pre-1700 miserabill, pre-1700 miserabyll, pre-1700 myserabill, pre-1700 myserable, pre-1700 myserrabill, pre-1700 myserrable, pre-1700 1700s– miserable, 1800s– meeserable.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French miserable.
Etymology: < Middle French miserable (French misérable : see note) < classical Latin miserābilis pitiable, wretched, pitifully small or inadequate < miserārī to view with compassion, feel sorry for ( < miser wretched: see miser adj. and n.1) + -bilis -ble suffix.Old French miserable is attested at the end of the 12th cent. in an isolated attestation in the phrase ‘dars et lances miserables’, hence perhaps in sense ‘causing injury’ or ‘woeful’. Middle French miserable has the senses ‘unhappy’ (1336), ‘in poverty’ (mid 15th cent.), ‘vile, contemptible’ (1560), ‘miserly’ (1550), and ‘feeling sympathy’ (from the 14th to the 16th cent.), and is attested as a noun from 1549. In regional use compare also English regional mis'able, U.S. regional (in Faulkner) mizzable.
A. adj.
1.
a. Living or existing in a state of external distress or misery; that is in a wretched condition.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > adversity > [adjective] > miserable or wretched
un-i-selieOE
drearyOE
unseelyOE
wretcha1122
usellc1175
unselea1200
wretcheda1200
misease?c1225
un-i-sele?c1250
wanlichec1275
miseasyc1300
wrackfulc1311
unblessed1340
wretchfula1382
wretchedful1382
caitiff1393
loddera1400
unhappena1400
pilledc1400
miserable?c1422
vengeablec1430
unhappyc1440
meschant?1473
miserousc1475
unselc1480
miser1542
forlorn1582
villainous1582
skybala1585
unblestful1608
despicable1635
haveless1868
the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > wretchedness > wretch > [adjective]
unhappya1400
miserable?c1422
single-soled1588
ingenerous1635
?c1422 T. Hoccleve Ars Sciendi Mori l. 69 in Minor Poems (1970) i. 180 To helle goon tho soules miserable.
a1500 Liber Pluscardensis (Marchm.) (1877) I. 384 And thou will seik to thi saluacioun, Have mynd of miserabile humanite.
1526 Bible (Tyndale) 1 Cor. xv. 19 Then are we off all men the miserablest.
1536 Prymer Salysbery Use (STC 15992) f. clviijv I am a wretched: and a miserable synner.
1544 Letanie in Exhort. vnto Prayer sig. Biiii Haue mercy vpon vs miserable sinners.
1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. cclxxiij He..besecheth him for Christes sake to..not worke any extremitie against hym, beyng a myserable Prince [L. miserum sane principem].
1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies v. xii. 360 It was a thing very common..that the Divell..answered in these false Sanctuaries deceiving this miserable people.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Titus Andronicus (1623) iii. ii. 28 To bid Æneas tell the tale twice ore How Troy was burnt, and he made miserable.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xi. 500 O miserable Mankind, to what fall Degraded, to what wretched state reserv'd! View more context for this quotation
a1708 W. Beveridge Thes. Theologicus (1710) II. 383 How miserable thou wilt be without him [sc. Christ]..Satan always domineering over..thee.
1818 M. W. Shelley Frankenstein II. iii. 34 I was a poor, helpless, miserable wretch; I knew, and could distinguish, nothing; but, feeling pain invade me on all sides, I sat down and wept.
1865 ‘L. Carroll’ Alice's Adventures in Wonderland xi. 172 ‘You must remember,’ remarked the King, ‘or I'll have you executed.’ The miserable Hatter dropped his teacup and bread-and-butter, and went down on one knee.
1924 A. D. H. Smith Porto Bello Gold ii. 16 One of the miserable sinners as was saved by an inscrootable Providence.
1987 J. Franklin Molecules of Mind (1988) xviii. 235 The miserable ragtag survivors of the vanished forest..were to receive in compensation the neurochemical blessing that their descendants would call by the name of love.
b. Needy, poverty-stricken; penurious. Now usually merged with sense A. 1a.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > poverty > [adjective] > poor
havelessOE
unrichOE
waedlec1000
armOE
nakedOE
helplessc1175
wantsomec1175
poora1200
barec1220
needfula1225
misease?c1225
unwealya1300
needyc1325
feeblec1330
poorful1372
mischievousc1390
miseasedc1390
indigentc1400
meanc1400
naughtyc1400
succourless1412
unwealthyc1412
behove1413
misterousa1425
misterfulc1480
miserablec1485
beggarly1545
starved1563
threadbare1577
penurious1590
fortuneless1596
wealthless1605
wantful1607
necessitous1611
inopulent1613
titheless1615
egene1631
starveling1638
necessitated1646
inopious1656
parsimonious1782
unopulent1782
lacking1805
bushed1819
obolary1820
ill-to-do1853
down at heel1856
po'1866
needsome1870
down-at-heeled1884
rocky1921
c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Knychthede (1993) vi. 38 A protectour and ane aduocate of all pore miserable and peceable personis.
?1525 tr. G. Alexis Interlocucyon betwyxt Man & Woman sig. Aiijv He solde all his herytage and after hath he dyed, a myserable begger.
1585 in D. Masson Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1880) 1st Ser. III. 747 Ydill beggaris and miserable personis.
1590 H. Swinburne Briefe Treat. Test. & Willes i. f. 30 They be poore and needie, such as the law tearmeth miserable persons.
1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World xvi. 464 The Inhabitants of this Country [sc. New Holland] are the miserablest People in the world. The Hodmadods of Monomatapa, though a nasty People, yet for Wealth are Gentlemen to these.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Miserable, wretched, unfortunate, distressed, poor.
1843 G. Borrow Bible in Spain II. xvi. 353 San Vincente, a large dilapidated town, chiefly inhabited by miserable fishermen.
1859 C. Dickens Tale of Two Cities ii. xvi. 120 ‘Business is very bad, the people are so poor.’ ‘Ah, the unfortunate, miserable people! So oppressed too.’
c. Beset by a feeling of misery; feeling very unhappy; melancholy, depressed. Also in weakened sense: uneasy, uncomfortable.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > suffering > misery > [adjective]
armlyeOE
un-i-selieOE
unledeeOE
unseelyOE
armOE
wretcha1122
unselea1200
wretcheda1200
wretchlyc1200
misease?c1225
wanlichec1275
miseasyc1300
wansomea1325
simplec1330
wretchfula1382
wretchedful1382
caitiff1393
loddera1400
desolate14..
disconsolatea1425
meschant?1473
miserousc1475
miser1542
unvisited1548
tribulate1575
happiless1582
uncomforted1583
blisslessa1586
uncomfortless1598
miserablea1616
thrallfula1618
calamitous1668
tribulated1682
donsie?1719
unsolaced1796
mis1939
a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) iv. i. 34 My youthfull trauaile, therein made me happy, Or else I often had beene often miserable . View more context for this quotation
1696 J. Swift Let. (1768) IV. i He is the miserablest creature in the world; eternally in his melancholy note, whatever I can do.
1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield I. xvii. 180 Go and be miserable; for we shall never enjoy one hour more.
1802 E. Parsons Myst. Visit IV. 152 Mr. Clifford..seemed very miserable by the loss of his box.
1847 C. Brontë Jane Eyre I. iii. 32 I cry because I am miserable.
1859 Ld. Tennyson Enid in Idylls of King 7 The pang That makes a man, in the sweet face of her Whom he loves most, lonely and miserable.
1898 H. G. Wells War of Worlds ii. ii. 208 Men go happy or miserable as they have healthy or unhealthy livers.
1938 R. K. Narayan Dark Room ix. 144 Now, babies, you must not be miserable because your mother is not here.
1988 Bella 4 Apr. 17/5 All dieting does is make her miserable and unhappy.
2.
a. Of a condition, event, etc.: full of or fraught with misery; causing wretchedness.
ΚΠ
?c1422 T. Hoccleve Ars Sciendi Mori l. 296 in Minor Poems (1970) i. 189 Let me be your ensaumple..Lest ye slippe in-to my plyt miserable.
c1487 J. Skelton tr. Diodorus Siculus Bibliotheca Historica iv. 303 They asked advice of a certeyne godde, agayne the said myserable and moche haynous plaige what myght be the fynall remedye.
a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 220 My lyff hes bein so miserabell.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) 2 Kings xiv. 26 The Lorde considered the myserable affliccion of Israel.
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III i. iv. 2 Oh I haue past a miserable night, So full of vgly sights, of gastly dreames.
1667 J. Dryden Let. to Sir R. Howard in Annus Mirabilis 1666 Pref. The destruction being..so vast and miserable, as nothing can parallel in Story.
1726 J. Swift Gulliver I. ii. viii. 146 What could I expect but a miserable Death of Cold and Hunger!
1813 P. B. Shelley Queen Mab v. 71 Disease, disgust, and lassitude, pervade Their valueless and miserable lives.
1866 Mrs. Charles Winifred Bertram i. 13 Auntie says it is not of the least use to make one's self miserable about miserable things that never happened at all.
1933 V. Brittain Test. of Youth iv. 176 Three miserable weeks of disappointment, and parting, and anxiety, and depression following the news of the expensive operations at Suvla Bay.
1996 Independent on Sunday 23 June 20/5 Some 200,000 Georgians and Mingrelians who lived there fled during the war, and now live a miserable life as refugees in Georgia.
b. In weakened sense: causing great discomfort; esp. (of the weather) cold, wet, depressing.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > suffering > state of annoyance or vexation > [adjective] > annoying or vexatious
angeeOE
swinkfuleOE
plightlyOE
teenfulOE
contrariousc1320
drefa1325
troublinga1325
despitousa1340
thornya1340
discomfortablec1350
troublablec1374
noyousa1382
noyfulc1384
diseasy1387
angrya1393
painful1395
hackinga1400
annoying?c1400
annoyousc1400
cumbrousc1400
teenc1400
annoyfulc1405
sputousc1420
diseasefula1425
molest?a1425
noying?a1425
noisomea1450
grievingc1450
tedious?1454
troublous1463
noisantc1475
displeasant1481
strouble1488
nuisant1494
noyanta1500
irksome1513
sturting1513
molestious1524
vexatious1534
cumbersome1535
uncommodious1541
spiteful1548
vexing?1548
incommodious1551
molestous1555
diseasing1558
grating1563
pestilent1565
sturtsome1570
molestuousa1572
troublesome1573
murrain1575
discommodable1579
galling1583
spiny1586
unsupportable1586
troubleful1588
plaguey1594
distressingc1595
molestful1596
molesting1598
vexful1598
fretful1603
briery1604
bemadding1608
mortifying1611
tiry1611
distressfula1616
irking1629
angersome1649
disobliging1652
discomforting1654
incomfortable1655
incommode1672
ruffling1680
unconvenient1683
pestifying1716
trying1718
offending1726
bothering1765
pesky1775
weary1785
sturty1788
unaccommodating1790
tiresome1798
werriting1808
bothersome1817
plaguesome1828
pestilential1833
fretsome1834
languorous1834
pesty1834
pestersome1843
nettlesome1845
miserable1850
niggling1854
distempering1855
be-maddeninga1861
nattery1873
nagging1883
pestiferous1890
trouble-giving1893
maddening1896
molestive1905
nuisancy1906
balls-aching?1912
nuisance1922
nattering1949
noodgy1969
dickheaded1991
dickish1991
cockish1996
1850 Beck's Florist 233 It was a miserable morning..when we started for Slough in our open conveyance.
1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) I. v. 403 The journey in the wild weather was extremely miserable.
1940 J. Buchan Memory Hold-the-Door vi. 134 There is the miserable getting up in the small hours, coffee in a bleak dining-room by the light of a single candle.
1989 J. Conway Road from Coorain (1990) iv. 64 The mending of the troughs was a daily task..made miserable by the blowflies, the blistering sun, the blowing sand.
1990 Illustr. London News No. 48/1 The check-in hall gets more crowded; inside there are not enough seats and it is hot and claustrophobic, outside it is cold and miserable.
3.
a. Of a thing: pitiable, deplorable. Now usually overlapping with sense A. 3b.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > compassion > quality of exciting pity > [adjective]
armlyeOE
unseelyOE
rulyOE
ruefulc1225
ruthfulc1225
sorryc1225
piteousc1300
poorc1300
ruthlyc1300
pietousa1393
pitifulc1450
lamentablec1460
miserable?a1475
pitiablec1475
execrable1490
plainful1555
tristsum1567
passionatea1586
touchinga1586
pathetic1591
melting1593
remorseful?1615
compassionate1630
compassionable1635
ruesome1833
po'1866
little-boy-lost1957
?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1879) VII. 33 (MED) The clerkes so expulsede seide hit was a miserable thynge and honoure that a newe aliaunte scholde expelle olde inhabitators of the londe.
1552 Abp. J. Hamilton Catech. Pref. Bot and the samyn office be done negligently, yair is na thing afore God mair miserabil, mair heuy & mair damnabil.
1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 236 I hate super-stition in my heart, but that so holy an example should be derided is miserable and to be pittied.
1726 J. Swift Gulliver I. ii. vii. 124 To shew the miserable Effects of a confined Education.
1870 F. M. Müller Sci. Relig. (1873) 272 His success was after all a miserable failure.
1902 R. H. Barbour Behind Line 167 He knew that he had played poorly;..that his end-running had been slow, almost listless, and that his performance at goal-kicking had been miserable.
1970 R. Ingalls Man who was left Behind (1974) 16 Miserable luck. We'll just sit here for a couple of minutes and if that's what it is then you get right to bed.
b. Pathetically unworthy, inadequate, or meagre; contemptible, despicable; paltry, mean.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > adversity > [adjective] > miserable or wretched > full of or attended with misery
wretch1131
wretchlyc1200
woefula1393
miserousc1475
miserable?a1513
miser1542
woe1572
thrallfula1618
the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [adjective] > paltry, mean, or contemptible
unworthlyc1230
wretcha1250
seely1297
vilec1320
not worth a cress (kerse)1377
the value of a rushc1380
threadbarec1412
wretched1450
miserable?a1513
rascal1519
prettya1522
not worth a whistlea1529
pegrall1535
plack1539
pelting1540
scald1542
sleeveless1551
baggage1553
paltering1553
piddling1559
twopenny1560
paltry1565
rubbish1565
baggagely1573
pelfish1577
halfpenny1579
palting1579
baubling1581
three-halfpenny1581
pitiful1582
triobolar1585
squirting1589
not worth a lousea1592
hedge1596
cheap1597
peddling1597
dribbling1600
mean1600
rascally1600
three-farthingc1600
draughty1602
dilute1605
copper1609
peltry?a1610
threepenny1613
pelsy1631
pimping1640
triobolary1644
pigwidgeon1647
dustya1649
fiddling1652
puddlinga1653
insignificant1658
piteous1667
snotty1681
scrubbed1688
dishonourable1699
scrub1711
footy1720
fouty1722
rubbishing1731
chuck-farthing1748
rubbishy1753
shabby1753
scrubby1754
poxya1758
rubbishly1777
waff-like1808
trinkety1817
meanish1831
one-eyed1843
twiddling1844
measly1847
poking1850
picayunish1852
vild1853
picayune1856
snide1859
two-cent1859
rummagy1872
faddling1883
finicking1886
slushy1889
twopence halfpenny1890
jerk1893
pissy1922
crappy1928
two-bit1932
piddly1933
chickenshit1934
pissing1937
penny packet1943
farkakte1960
pony1964
gay1978
the mind > emotion > suffering > misery > [adjective] > of conditions or events
wretch1131
wretchedc1200
feeble1297
wrackfulc1311
woefula1393
miserousc1475
miserable?a1513
discomfortablea1535
calamitous1545
tristsum1567
woe1572
untoward1632
a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 223 Ane vthir sort more miserabill, Thocht thai be nocht sa profitable.
1534 R. Whittington tr. Cicero Thre Bks. Tuylles Offyces (1540) i. 58 Ambycion and contencion for honour is a vyce vtterly very miserable.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Job xvi. 2 Miserable geuers of comforte are ye.
1597 Pilgrimage Parnassus (1886) ii. 8 [He] often scratcheth his witts' head for the bringinge of one miserable period into the worlde.
1620 T. Granger Syntagma Logicum 350 The Proposition is miserable. For a false adiunct is put a true adiunct, happie.
1723 E. Chambers tr. S. Le Clerc Treat. Archit. I. 137 Their Bases and Corniches will be confounded together, which must needs have a miserable Effect.
1743 J. Wesley in Wks. (1872) I. 412 One of the most miserable sermons I ever heard.
1794 E. Burke Speech against W. Hastings in Wks. (1827) VIII. 301 This miserable balance of 60,000l.
1818 in Harper's Mag. (1884) June 126/1 The corn is miserable..; we have to pound it.
1841 L. Hunt Seer (1864) ii. 34 It would be the miserablest and most despicable of all mistakes.
1873 E. E. Hale In his Name vi. 60 He had lost certainly half an hour in that miserable altercation.
1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 850/2 It was a miserable libel and was at once rebutted by Goodyear.
1951 New Yorker 15 Dec. 34/1 Our miserable clothes and underfed bodies were associated with high financial status.
1990 J. Halperin Novelists in their Youth iv. 135 Aboard merchant vessels most of the men were there because, quite simply, they needed the miserable remuneration.
c. colloquial. Of tea: very weak. Now rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > drink > tea > [adjective] > qualities of tea
milkless1816
slushy1839
miserable1842
overdrawn1847
raw1881
mealy1892
stewy1895
tannined1898
potty1901
stiff1904
stewed1908
metallic1909
1842 [see sense B. 3].
1900 E. Glyn Visits of Elizabeth 205 There was only a miserable tea left.
4. Of a person, etc.: miserly, mean, stingy. Now colloquial and regional.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > retaining > niggardliness or meanness > [adjective] > miserly
gnedy?c1225
miserable1484
misera1500
muckeringa1525
pinchpence1540
snudging1553
pinchpenny1582
miserly1593
mising1595
scraping1597
chuff-penny1603
wretched1652
nabalitic1653
skinflint1737
nippit1808
Scrooge-like1976
1484 W. Caxton tr. Subtyl Historyes & Fables Esope iv. iv. 106 The myserable auarycious, the more goodes that they haue the more they desire to haue.
1522 [implied in: J. Skelton Why come ye nat to Courte 1029 Suche gredynesse, Suche nedynesse, Myserablenesse, With wretchydnesse. (at miserableness n. 1)].
1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. lxv. 167 The liberall harted man is by the opinion of the prodigall miserable, and by the iudgement of the miserable lauish.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Fourmage Cheese is good when a miserable hand giues it.
1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy ii. i. iv. ii. 300 That he be not too niggardly miserable of his purse.
a1644 F. Quarles Judgem. & Mercy (1646) 37 If I am covetous, it is interpreted providence; if miserable, it is counted temperance.
1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue Hunks, a covetous miserable fellow, a miser.
1859 E. C. Gaskell Round the Sofa II. 101 A certain kind of sober pleasure in amassing money, which occasionally made them miserable (as they call miserly people up in the north).
a1863 R. Whately Misc. Remains (1864) 235 In Norfolk and Suffolk, among the common people, the word miserable is the only one in use to signify what we call penurious.
1949 Huntly Express 6 May The wives of stingy, miserable farmers who refused to give oats to hens.
1964 in Dict. Newfoundland Eng. (1982) 330/1 He'd give them twenty-five cents in the night to go to bed without their supper. He was pretty miserable, wasn't he?
1976 Australian 20 May (Sydney ed.) 6/5 A ‘lousy dollar a day!’ Could any government be more miserable?
†5. Having pity, merciful, compassionate. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > compassion > [adjective] > pitying or compassionate
ruefulc1225
ruthfulc1225
piteousc1300
pietousa1393
rueinga1400
piec1429
compassionable1548
compassioned?1578
miserable1584
compassionate1587
pitying1589
eleemosynous?1590
humane1603
compassionful1604
remorsive1606
remorseful1610
compassive1612
yearnful1633
1584 R. Wilson Three Ladies of London sig. F j v Therefore pray ye Sir, be miserable to me, and let me go.
1599 T. Heywood 1st Pt. King Edward IV sig. I2v My sonnes..itha Gayle.., and outstep [= outcept] the king bee miserable, hees like to totter.
1630 J. Taylor Wks. ii. 80/1 Although my crime is vnmeasurable, yet I hope your Lordship will not forget to become miserable.
B. n.
1. A miserable person; a person who is extremely poor, unhappy, or wretched. Frequently in plural.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > poverty > [noun] > poor person
poorc1225
poor man?c1225
beggar1340
goodlessa1350
poreleta1382
miserable1484
poor one1562
bankrupt?1563
indigent1563
poorling1581
poor snake1590
needling1608
desperviewa1640
have-nota1739
angishore1835
little worth1885
the world > action or operation > adversity > [noun] > tribulation, trouble, or affliction > wretched person
wretchc1000
caitiffc1325
crachouna1400
wretcheda1425
miserable1484
miser1542
afflicted1545
seggon1570
elf1573
devil1593
wreck1795
the mind > emotion > suffering > misery > [noun] > miserable person
armOE
ermingOE
wretchc1000
caitiffc1325
crachouna1400
miserable1484
miser1542
elf1573
angishore1835
1484 W. Caxton tr. Subtyl Historyes & Fables Esope iv. v. 107 Every one ought to do wel to the straunger and forgyue to the myserable.
a1533 Ld. Berners tr. A. de Guevara Golden Boke M. Aurelius (1559) H h vj b These miserables after that they be appoincted and set in their offices, where of they be nothynge woorthy [etc.].
1640 tr. G. S. du Verdier Love & Armes Greeke Princes iii. 131 Parmolina (so is this miserable called that speaks to you) loves you with passion.
1679 E. Everard Disc. Protestant Princes 23 We need not admire at the Tribulation which these poor miserables do suffer.
1768 L. Sterne Sentimental Journey I. 188 So many miserables, by force of accidents driven out of their own proper class.
1814 R. Southey Roderick xxv. 336 Saying thus, he seized The miserable.
1896 ‘I. Maclaren’ Kate Carnegie 287 It ill became such miserables [sc. students in grimy towns] to be insolent.
a1902 F. Norris Pit (1903) i. 7 A crowd of miserables, shivering in rags and tattered comforters, who found, nevertheless, an unexplainable satisfaction in watching this prolonged defile of millionaires.
1937 V. Loggins I hear Amer. x. 275 These Chicago miserables are not unalive to the handfuls of beauty meted out to them.
2010 M. D. O'Hara Flock Divided vi. 196 Colonial law and church policy considered Indians miserables, wretched people who were to receive special care from state and society.
†2. With plural agreement. With the. Miserable people as a class, esp. those who are needy or distressed. Obsolete.
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the mind > possession > poverty > [noun] > poor person > poor people or the poor
waedlec888
needfula1200
needya1225
poorc1225
God's poorc1230
porailc1325
porailsa1425
povertya1450
poorality1536
God's poverty1563
miserable1582
necessitous1622
necessitated1638
ptochocracy1831
fallen1878
worse off1890
po'1945
the mind > emotion > suffering > misery > [noun] > miserable person > collectively
miserable1582
1577 T. Vautrollier tr. M. Luther Comm. Epist. to Galathians (new ed.) f. 25 The Pope..rappeth out his thundercrackes and cursings against the miserable and terrified in conscience.]
1582 T. Bentley et al. Monument of Matrones iii. 328 O almightie God: which raisest vp the abiects, and exaltest the miserable from the dunghill.
1650 tr. N. Caussin Angel of Peace 45 The odious rejoycings of the unjust are saginated with the tears of the miserable.
1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 84. ⁋2 In the Regard for the Miserable, Eucrate took particular Care, that the common Forms of Distress..should never obtain Favour by his Means.
1890 Spectator 15 Mar. Not by subordinating religious principle to the desires of the miserable.
†3. colloquial. Very weak tea. Obsolete.
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the world > food and drink > drink > infused leaves, flowers, or fruit > [noun] > others
coltsfoota1627
sage tea?1706
pippin tea1709
lemon-tea1725
foltron1748
camomile-tea1753
sassafras tea1783
spruce tea1783
mountain tea1785
cow-slip tea1796
miserable1842
peppermint tea1844
violet tea1853
Swiss tea1860
coffee-tea1866
Jesuits' tea1866
St. Helena tea1875
cotton-leaf tea1881
tamarind watera1883
tamarind tea1883
mullein tea1887
rosehip tea1947
1842 S. Lover Handy Andy xv. 130 The large bowl of miserable Mrs. O'Grady had prepared.

Compounds

miserable-looking adj.
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1773 R. Graves Spiritual Quixote III. x. xvii. 131 They now met a poor miserable-looking old fellow.
1839 C. Darwin in R. Fitzroy & C. Darwin Narr. Surv. Voy. H.M.S. Adventure & Beagle III. i. 3 A hospital, containing about a dozen miserable-looking inmates.
1995 Q June 8/1 As if to illustrate the wretched godless unpredictability of this bumpsome travail we call ‘life’,..is another cartoon depicting two miserable looking parsnips.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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