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used to emphasize the low quality of something: The book was a miserable failure. C2 [ before noun ] used to emphasize the low amount or value of something: informal She offered me a miserable $20 for my old phone. Synonyms.
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 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. You'd be miserable — which means exceptionally unhappy.
MISERABLE meaning: 1. very unhappy: 2. unpleasant and causing unhappiness: 3. used to emphasize the low quality of…. Learn more.
adj. 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 describe someone as miserable, you mean that you do not like them because they are bad-tempered or unfriendly. He always was a miserable man. He never spoke to me nor anybody else.
Definition of miserable adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
What does the word miserable mean? There are 13 meanings listed in OED's entry for the word miserable , three of which are labelled obsolete. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.
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)
1. If you are miserable, you are very unhappy. [...] 2. If you describe a place or situation as miserable, you mean that it makes you feel unhappy or depressed. [...] 3. If you describe the weather as miserable, you mean that it makes you feel depressed, because it is raining or dull. [...]
