miserable 
mis·er·able (miz′ər ə bəl, miz′rə-)
adjective
- in a condition of misery; wretched, unhappy, suffering, etc.
- causing misery, discomfort, or suffering miserable weather
- bad; inferior; inadequate a miserable performance
- pitiable
- shameful; disgraceful
Etymology: Fr misérable < L miserabilis, pitiable < miserari, to pity < miser, wretched
noun
Obsolete a miserable person
miserable
modif.
In misery
distressed, afflicted, sickly, ill, wretched, sick, ailing, unfortunate, pitiable, uncomfortable, suffering, hurt, wounded, tormented, tortured, in pain, strained, racked, injured, anguished, agonized, fevered, burning, convulsed; see also troubled 1, 2.Antonyms
helped*, aided, comfortable*. Unhappy
pained, discontented, sorrowful; see sad 1.Of very low standard
sorry, worthless, inferior; see poor 2.
Preposition: as
- sin: And he was as miserable as sin, and he gave me a wretched time all evening.
Adjective complement with noun phrase
- make: Technology makes people miserable, sparking technology to avoid the miserable people.
Modifies a noun
- sod: Good thing you're in the Tory party, you miserable sod.
- git: Trevor [ Foster ] says I was a miserable git in the old days at Jordan.
- bastard: I played to some miserable bastards in a small bar in the center of Manchester for very little laughter or money.
- wretch: Oh, was there in all the world a more miserable wretch than he!
- sinner: We all stand before God as ' miserable sinners ' ; debtors in need of mercy.
- bugger: I know, I'm a miserable old bugger.
Modifying Another Word
- downright: I have had many periods in my own life when I have been downright miserable and unhappy.
- utterly: It says and does not say that London is utterly miserable.
- thoroughly: On a wet, windy and thoroughly miserable Friday I decide to meet a couple of friends at Ascot.
- pretty: They're a pretty miserable lot on the whole.
- absolutely: Unlike most of our contemporaries at the time we didn't make music for any other reason than it made us absolutely miserable not to.
- truly: We are joyful, therefore, because we are truly miserable!
Used with adjective complement
- feel: You may feel miserable, like crying, or you may go off your food.
- look: I'd heard that live, The Kills usually just stand there, looking miserable.
- become: But if we cannot have them then we become miserable.
- make: My days were made miserable by a steady stream of offensive comments.
- get: He gets so miserable, that he creeps away.
Preposition: of
- man: I shall be the most miserable of men if you don't.
So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now.
Si la vie est mise¤ rable, elle est pe¤ nible a' supporter; si elle est heureuse, il est horrible de la perdre. L'un revient a' l'autre. If life ismiserable, it is difficultto endure; if it ishappy, it is horrible to lose.They come to the same thing.
Si vous e" tes malheureux, il ne faut pas le dire au lecteur. Gardez cela pour vous. If you are miserable, you should not say so to the reader. Keep it for yourself.
Quand notre coeur a fait une fois sa vendange, Vivre est un mal. Once our heart has been harvested once, Life becomes miserable.
Materially make the life of the artist sufficiently miserable to be unattractive, and no one will take to art save those in whom the divine daemon is absolute.
Imustconfessthat I livea miserable life I live entirely in my music.
La plupart des hommes emploient la meilleure partie de leur vie a' rendre l'autre mise¤ rable. Most people spend the greater part of their lives making others miserable.
En un mot, l'homme conna|"t qu'il est mise¤ rable: il est donc mise¤ rable, puisqu'il l'est; mais il est bien grand, puisqu'il le conna|"t. In one word, man knows that he is miserable and therefore he is miserable because he knows it; but he is also worthy, because he knows his condition.
All men hate the wretched; how, then, must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all living things! Yet you, my creator, detest and spurnme, thycreature, towhomthou art bound by ties only dissoluble by the annihilation of one of us. 782
Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet isthemiserable Irish Catholic childhood.
La plupart des gens ne meurent qu'au dernier moment; d'autres commencent et s'y prennent vingt ans d'avance et parfois davantage. Ce sont les malheureux de la terre. Most people only die at the last moment; others begin earlyand take twenty years and sometimes more. These are the most miserable people on earth.
O God the Father of heaven: have mercy upon us miserable sinners.
It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear.
On devient moral de' s qu'on est malheureux. We become moral once we are miserable.
If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.
And I thought,'My lord, one thing is certain, and that's that they'll make musicals one day about the glamour- studded1950s.'And I thought, my heaven, one thing is certain too, I'm miserable.
The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.
Some men go through life absolutely miserable because, despite the most enormous achievements, they just didn't do one thingölike the architect who didn't build St Paul's. I didn't quite build St Paul's, but I stood on more mountain tops than possibly I deserved.
A wrong decision can make me very miserable.But I have trust in God. If you have this trust you don't have to worry, as you don't have the sole responsibility.
Browse dictionary entries near miserable
- ‹ miser
- ‹ misemploy
- ‹ mise-en-scène
- ‹ misdoubt
- ‹ misdoing
- ‹ misdoer
- ‹ misdo
- ‹ misdirect
- ‹ misdiagnose
- ‹ misdemeanor
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