单词 | miserable |
释义 | miserable/ˈmɪz(ə)rəb(ə)l![]() adjective 1(Of a person) wretchedly unhappy or uncomfortable: their happiness made Anne feel even more miserable...
Synonyms unhappy, sad, sorrowful, dejected, depressed, downcast, downhearted, down, despondent, despairing, disconsolate, out of sorts, desolate, bowed down, wretched, glum, gloomy, dismal, blue, melancholy, melancholic, low-spirited, mournful, woeful, woebegone, doleful, forlorn, crestfallen, broken-hearted, heartbroken, inconsolable, luckless, grief-stricken informal down in the mouth, down in the dumps 1.1Causing unhappiness or discomfort: horribly wet and miserable conditions...
Synonyms dreary, dismal, dark, gloomy, drab, sombre, wretched, depressing, grim, cheerless, godforsaken, bleak, desolate, joyless, uninviting, discouraging, disheartening, unpromising, hopeless, dire, pathetic, tragic, distressing, grievous; mean, poor, shabby, squalid, filthy, foul, sordid, seedy, dilapidated unpleasant, disagreeable, displeasing, depressing, uncomfortable; wet, rainy, stormy informal rotten 1.2(Of a person) habitually morose: a miserable man in his late sixties...
Synonyms grumpy, sullen, sulky, gloomy, bad-tempered, ill-tempered, in a bad mood, dour, surly, sour, glum, moody, unsmiling, humourless, uncommunicative, taciturn, unresponsive, unsociable, scowling, glowering, ill-humoured, sombre, sober, saturnine, pessimistic, lugubrious, dismal, irritable, churlish, cantankerous, crotchety, cross, crabbed, crabby, grouchy, testy, snappish, peevish, crusty, waspish Northern English informal mardy informal, dated mumpish 2Pitiably small or inadequate: all they pay me is a miserable £8,000 a year...
Synonyms inadequate, meagre, scanty, scant, paltry, limited, restricted, insufficient, deficient, negligible, insubstantial, skimpy, short, little, lean, small, slight, slender, poor, lamentable, pitiful, puny, niggardly, beggarly informal measly, stingy, lousy, pathetic, piddling rare exiguous 2.1Australian /NZ & Scottish Miserly: a lousy dollar a day — could any government be more miserable?...
3 [attributive] Contemptible (used as a term of abuse or for emphasis): you miserable old creep!...
Synonyms wretched, contemptible, despicable, confounded informal blithering, flaming, footling, infernal, damned, cursed, accursed Derivativesmiserableness
OriginLate Middle English: from French misérable, from Latin miserabilis 'pitiable', from miserari 'to pity', from miser 'wretched'. |
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