Word Meanings - MISERABLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Very unhappy; wretched. What hopes delude thee, miserable man Dryden. 2. Causing unhappiness or misery. What 's more miserable than discontent Shak. 3. Worthless; mean; despicable; as, a miserable fellow; a miserable dinner. Miserable comforters

Additional info about word: MISERABLE

1. Very unhappy; wretched. What hopes delude thee, miserable man Dryden. 2. Causing unhappiness or misery. What 's more miserable than discontent Shak. 3. Worthless; mean; despicable; as, a miserable fellow; a miserable dinner. Miserable comforters are ye all. Job xvi. 2. 4. Avaricious; niggardly; miserly. Hooker. Syn. -- Abject; forlorn; pitiable; wretched.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of MISERABLE)

• Abject
• Degraded
• outcast
• miserable
• vile
• pitiable
• worthless
• despicable
• groveling
• fawning
• squalid
• base-minded
• slavish
• beggarly
• servile
• cringing
• low
• wretched
• sordid
• Beggarly
• Miserable
• poor
• stinted
• niggardly
• stingy
• scant
• illiberal
• Deplorable
• Lamentable
• sad
• calamitous
• disastrous
• Piteous
• Sad
• deplorable
• lamentable
• distressing
• doleful
• mournful
• woful
• affecting
• sorrowful
• Wretched
• debased
• humiliated
• fallen
• ruined
• mean
• paltry
• contemptible
• afflicted
• melancholy
• dejected

Related words: (words related to MISERABLE)

• STINTLESS
  Without stint or restraint. The stintlesstears of old Heraclitus. Marston.
• DEJECTION
  1. A casting down; depression. Hallywell. 2. The act of humbling or abasing one's self. Adoration implies submission and dejection. Bp. Pearson. 3. Lowness of spirits occasioned by grief or misfortune; mental depression; melancholy. What besides,
• DEJECTORY
  1. Having power, or tending, to cast down. 2. Promoting evacuations by stool. Ferrand.
• SQUALIDLY
  In a squalid manner.
• SORDIDNESS
  The quality or state of being sordid.
• AFFECTATIONIST
  One who exhibits affectation. Fitzed. Hall.
• FAWN
  A servile cringe or bow; mean flattery; sycophancy. Shak.
• CRINGLE
  An iron or pope thimble or grommet worked into or attached to the edges and corners of a sail; -- usually in the plural. The cringles are used for making fast the bowline bridles, earings, etc. (more info) 1. A withe for fastening a gate.
• ILLIBERALISM
  Illiberality.
• MOURNFUL
  Full of sorrow; expressing, or intended to express, sorrow; mourning; grieving; sad; also, causing sorrow; saddening; grievous; as, a mournful person; mournful looks, tones, loss. -- Mourn"ful*ly, adv. -- Mourn"ful*ness, n. Syn. -- Sorrowful;
• MISERABLENESS
  The state or quality of being miserable.
• ABJECT
  1. Cast down; low-lying. From the safe shore their floating carcasses And broken chariot wheels; so thick bestrown Abject and lost lay these, covering the flood. Milton. 2. Sunk to a law condition; down in spirit or hope; degraded; servile;
• FAWNINGLY
  In a fawning manner.
• SERVILELY
  In a servile manner; slavishly.
• AFFLICTIVELY
  In an afflictive manner.
• SQUALIDNESS
  Quality or state of being squalid.
• MISERABLE
  1. Very unhappy; wretched. What hopes delude thee, miserable man Dryden. 2. Causing unhappiness or misery. What 's more miserable than discontent Shak. 3. Worthless; mean; despicable; as, a miserable fellow; a miserable dinner. Miserable comforters
• DEBASINGLY
  In a manner to debase.
• BEGGARLY
  1. In the condition of, or like, a beggar; suitable for a beggar; extremely indigent; poverty-stricken; mean; poor; contemptible. "A bankrupt, beggarly fellow." South. "A beggarly fellowship." Swift. "Beggarly elements." Gal. iv. 9. 2. Produced
• ILLIBERALNESS
  The state of being illiberal; illiberality.
• PRUINOUS
  Frosty; pruinose.
• OVERAFFECT
  To affect or care for unduly. Milton.
• MISAFFECT
  To dislike.
• CORUSCANT
  Glittering in flashes; flashing. Howell.