miserable
adjective
[ ˈmɪz(ə)rəb(ə)l ]
• (of a person) wretchedly unhappy or uncomfortable.
• "their happiness made Anne feel even more miserable"
Similar:
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,
down in the mouth,
down in the dumps,
• pitiably small or inadequate.
• "all they pay me is a miserable £8,000 a year"
Similar:
inadequate,
meagre,
scanty,
scant,
paltry,
limited,
restricted,
insufficient,
deficient,
negligible,
insubstantial,
skimpy,
short,
little,
lean,
small,
slight,
slender,
poor,
lamentable,
pitiful,
puny,
beggarly,
measly,
stingy,
lousy,
pathetic,
piddling,
exiguous,
Origin:
late Middle English: from French misérable, from Latin miserabilis ‘pitiable’, from miserari ‘to pity’, from miser ‘wretched’.
