Miserable

Adjective

 * 1) In a state of misery: very sad, ill, or poor.
 * 2) * George Bernard Shaw
 * The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure is occupation.
 * 1) Very bad (at something); unskilled, incompetent.
 * He's O.K. at some sports, like tennis, but he's just miserable at football.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:unhappy
 * See also Thesaurus:bad

Derived terms

 * miserablism
 * miserabilism
 * miserablist
 * miserabilist

Adverbs for Miserable
wretchedly; unutterably; poignantly; visibly; helplessly; desolately; uncommonly; dismally;  lonesomely;   heavily;   gloomily; drearily; hopelessly; disconsolately; forlornly; abjectly; dejectedly; downright; singularly; peculiarly; bitterly; cruelly; unwontediy; fretfully; sorely; oddly; incurably; intensely.

Thesaurus
abject, abominable, adverse, afflicted, antagonistic, arrant, atrocious, awful, bad, base, beggarly, beneath contempt, cheap, cheerless, cheesy, common, conflicting, contemptible, contrary, counter, counteractive, crummy, crushed, cut up, debased, deep-troubled, degraded, dejected, deplorable, depraved, depressed, desolate, despairing, desperate, despicable, despondent, detrimental, difficult, dirty, disconsolate, discontented, disgraceful, disgusting, dismal, doleful, dolorous, downhearted, execrable, flagrant, forlorn, foul, fulsome, gaudy, gimcracky, gloomy, glum, grave, grim, gross, hard, harmful, heart-stricken, heart-struck, heartbroken, heartsick, heinous, hopeless, hostile, humorless, in bad humor, in opposition, inadequate, inclement, inconvenient, infestive, inimical, joyless, lachrymose, lamentable, little, lousy, low, low-down, low-spirited, lumpen, mangy, mean, measly, melancholy, meretricious, mirthless, monstrous, mournful, nefarious, not easy, obnoxious, odious, opposed, opposing, opposite, out of humor, out of sorts, paltry, pathetic, petty, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, pleasureless, poky, poor, rank, reptilian, rigorous, rotten, rubbishy, rueful, ruthful, sad, scabby, scrubby, scruffy, scummy, scurvy, scuzzy, shabby, shameful, shoddy, sinister, small, sorrowful, sorry, sorryish, squalid, stressful, stricken, suicidal, tearful, terrible, trashy, troublesome, troublous, trumpery, trying, two-for-a-cent, two-for-a-penny, twopenny, twopenny-halfpenny, uncheerful, uncheery, unfavorable, unhappy, unjoyful, unmentionable, unmirthful, unpleasant, unsmiling, untoward, unworthy, valueless, vile, woebegone, woeful, worthless, wretched

Translations

 * Armenian:
 * Catalan:, desgraciat
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 悲惨的，痛苦的
 * Czech:, bědný
 * French:
 * German:, , miserabel
 * Greek:, ελεεινός, αξιοθρήνητος, πενιχρός


 * Hungarian:
 * Old English:
 * Romanian: mizerabil ,
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: brònach
 * Spanish:


 * Czech:
 * German: miserabel


 * Greek: άθλιος, αξιοθρήνητος
 * Hungarian: gyatra, pocsék

Adjective

 * 1) miserable
 * 2) poor

Related terms

 * mísero
 * miseria