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Word Meanings - MISERABLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In a miserable; unhappily; calamitously; wretchedly; meanly. They were miserably entertained. Sir P. Sidney. The fifth was miserably stabbed to death. South.

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  • SOUTHWEST
    The point of the compass equally from the south and the west; the southwest part or region.
  • SOUTHSAY
    See SOOTHSAY
  • SOUTHWESTERLY
    To ward or from the southwest; as, a southwesterly course; a southwesterly wind.
  • DEATHLIKE
    1. Resembling death. A deathlike slumber, and a dead repose. Pope. 2. Deadly. "Deathlike dragons." Shak.
  • SOUTHPAW
    A pitcher who pitches with the left hand.
  • MEANLY
    In a mean manner; unworthily; basely; poorly; ungenerously. While the heaven-born child All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies. Milton. Would you meanly thus rely On power you know I must obey Prior. We can not bear to have others think meanly
  • SOUTHERNLINESS
    Southerliness.
  • MISERABLENESS
    The state or quality of being miserable.
  • SOUTHREN
    Southern. "I am a Southren man." Chaucer.
  • DEATHLINESS
    The quality of being deathly; deadliness. Southey.
  • 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
  • DEATHWATCH
    A small beetle . By forcibly striking its head against woodwork it makes a ticking sound, which is a call of the sexes to each other, but has been imagined by superstitious people to presage death. A small wingless insect, of the family Psocidæ,
  • ENTERTAINER
    One who entertains.
  • SOUTHSAYER
    See SOOTHSAYER
  • SOUTH; SOUTHERLY
    the old squaw; -- so called in imitation of its cry. Called also southerly, and southerland. See under Old.
  • SOUTHING
    Distance of any heavenly body south of the equator; south declination; south latitude. (more info) 1. Tendency or progress southward; as, the southing of the sun. Emerson. 2. The time at which the moon, or other heavenly body, passes the meridian
  • FIFTHLY
    In the fifth place; as the fifth in order.
  • SOUTHERN
    A Southerner.
  • SOUTHNESS
    A tendency in the end of a magnetic needle to point toward the south pole. Faraday.
  • WRETCHEDLY
    In a wretched manner; miserably; despicable.
  • DEATHLY
    Deadly; fatal; mortal; destructive.
  • DEATHWARD
    Toward death.
  • SOUTHEASTERN
    Of or pertaining to the southeast; southeasterly.

 

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