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.
Related words: (words related to MISERABLY)
- 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.