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MISERABLE definition: 1. very unhappy: 2. unpleasant and causing unhappiness: 3. used to emphasize the low quality of…. Learn more.
The meaning of MISERABLE is being in a pitiable state of distress or unhappiness (as from want or shame). How to use miserable in a sentence.
MISERABLE meaning: 1. very unhappy: 2. unpleasant and causing unhappiness: 3. used to emphasize the low quality of…. Learn more.
Miserable definition: wretchedly unhappy, uneasy, or uncomfortable. See examples of MISERABLE used in a sentence.
Miserable goes way beyond sad — it means absolutely wretched. Someone who's miserable feels absolutely awful. If you were caught in the pouring rain, missed your own birthday party, and then got food poisoning, you wouldn't just feel bad.
1. unhappy or depressed; wretched. 2. causing misery, discomfort, etc: a miserable life. 3. contemptible: a miserable villain. 4. sordid or squalid: miserable living conditions. 5. Scot and Austral and NZ mean; stingy. 6. (pejorative intensifier): you miserable wretch.
If you are miserable, you are very unhappy. I took a series of badly paid secretarial jobs which made me really miserable. She went to bed, miserable and depressed.
very unhappy or uncomfortable. We were cold, wet and thoroughly miserable. Don't look so miserable! She knows how to make life miserable for her employees.
very unpleasant or bad, and causing someone to feel unhappy: Some families are living in miserable conditions. miserable adjective (NOT ENOUGH) A miserable amount is too small to be acceptable: She offered me a miserable 50 euros for my old computer. (Definition of miserable from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
See miserable in the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Check pronunciation: miserable. Definition of miserable adjective in Oxford Advanced American Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
