MISERABLE
\mˈɪzɹəbə͡l], \mˈɪzɹəbəl], \m_ˈɪ_z__ɹ_ə_b_əl]\
Definitions of MISERABLE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
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of the most contemptible kind; "abject cowardice"; "a low stunt to pull"; "a low-down sneak"; "his miserable treatment of his family"; "You miserable skunk!"; "a scummy rabble"; "a scurvy trick"
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of very poor quality or condition; "deplorable housing conditions in the inner city"; "woeful treatment of the accused"; "woeful errors of judgment"
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deserving or inciting pity; "a hapless victim"; "miserable victims of war"; "the shabby room struck her as extraordinarily pathetic"- Galsworthy; "piteous appeals for help"; "pitiable homeless children"; "a pitiful fate"; "couldn't rescue the poor fellow"; "his poor distorted limbs"; "a wretched life"
By Princeton University
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of the most contemptible kind; "abject cowardice"; "a low stunt to pull"; "a low-down sneak"; "his miserable treatment of his family"; "You miserable skunk!"; "a scummy rabble"; "a scurvy trick"
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of very poor quality or condition; "deplorable housing conditions in the inner city"; "woeful treatment of the accused"; "woeful errors of judgment"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Causing unhappiness or misery.
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Worthless; mean; despicable; as, a miserable fellow; a miserable dinner.
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Avaricious; niggardly; miserly.
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A miserable person.
By Oddity Software
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Causing unhappiness or misery.
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Worthless; mean; despicable; as, a miserable fellow; a miserable dinner.
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Avaricious; niggardly; miserly.
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A miserable person.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Wretched or exceedingly unhappy: causing misery: very poor or mean: worthless: despicable: barren.
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MISERABLENESS.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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Miserableeness.
By James Champlin Fernald
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