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miserable
(mass) | miserable
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miserable
(encz) | miserable,bídný adj: |
miserable
(encz) | miserable,mizerný adj: |
miserable
(encz) | miserable,nešťastný adj: |
miserable
(encz) | miserable,ubohý adj: |
miserable
(encz) | miserable,zbědovaný adj: |
miserable
(encz) | miserable,zubožený adj: Zdeněk Brož |
Miserable
(gcide) | Miserable \Mis"er*a*ble\, a. [F. mis['e]rable, L. miserabilis,
fr. miserari to lament, pity, fr. miser wretched. See
Miser.]
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1. Very unhappy; wretched; living in misery.
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What hopes delude thee, miserable man? --Dryden.
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2. Causing unhappiness or misery.
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What 's more miserable than discontent? --Shak.
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3. Worthless; mean; despicable; as, a miserable fellow; a
miserable dinner.
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Miserable comforters are ye all. --Job xvi. 2.
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4. Avaricious; niggardly; miserly. [Obs.] --Hooker.
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Syn: Abject; forlorn; pitiable; wretched.
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Miserable
(gcide) | Miserable \Mis"er*a*ble\, n.
A miserable person. [Obs.] --Sterne.
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miserable
(wn) | miserable
adj 1: very unhappy; full of misery; "he felt depressed and
miserable"; "a message of hope for suffering humanity";
"wretched prisoners huddled in stinking cages" [syn:
miserable, suffering, wretched]
2: 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"; "Oh,
you poor thing"; "his poor distorted limbs"; "a wretched
life" [syn: hapless, miserable, misfortunate,
pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor,
wretched]
3: 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" [syn: abject, low, low-down, miserable,
scummy, scurvy]
4: of very poor quality or condition; "deplorable housing
conditions in the inner city"; "woeful treatment of the
accused"; "woeful errors of judgment" [syn: deplorable,
execrable, miserable, woeful, wretched]
5: characterized by physical misery; "a wet miserable weekend";
"spent a wretched night on the floor" [syn: miserable,
wretched]
6: contemptibly small in amount; "a measly tip"; "the company
donated a miserable $100 for flood relief"; "a paltry wage";
"almost depleted his miserable store of dried beans" [syn:
measly, miserable, paltry] |
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miserableness
(encz) | miserableness,ubohost n: Zdeněk Brož |
Commiserable
(gcide) | Commiserable \Com*mis"er*a*ble\, a.
Pitiable. [Obs.] --Bacon.
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measly miserable paltry
(gcide) | Meager \Mea"ger\, Meagre \Mea"gre\, a. [OE. merge, F. maigre, L.
macer; akin to D. & G. mager, Icel. magr, and prob. to Gr.
makro`s long. Cf. Emaciate, Maigre.]
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1. Destitue of, or having little, flesh; lean.
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Meager were his looks;
Sharp misery had worn him to the bones. --Shak.
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2. Destitute of richness, fertility, strength, or the like;
defective in quantity, or poor in quality; poor; barren;
scanty in ideas; wanting strength of diction or affluence
of imagery; as, meager resources; meager fare. Opposite of
ample. [WordNet sense 1] [Narrower terms: exiguous]
[Narrower terms: hardscrabble, marginal] [Narrower
terms: measly, miserable, paltry] "Meager soil."
--Dryden.
Syn: meagre, meagerly, scanty.
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Of secular habits and meager religious belief.
--I. Taylor.
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His education had been but meager. --Motley.
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3. (Min.) Dry and harsh to the touch, as chalk.
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4. less than a desirable amount; -- of items distributed from
a larger supply. [WordNet sense 2]
Syn: scrimpy, skimpy, skimping.
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Syn: Thin; lean; lank; gaunt; starved; hungry; poor;
emaciated; scanty; barren.
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Miserable
(gcide) | Miserable \Mis"er*a*ble\, a. [F. mis['e]rable, L. miserabilis,
fr. miserari to lament, pity, fr. miser wretched. See
Miser.]
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1. Very unhappy; wretched; living in misery.
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What hopes delude thee, miserable man? --Dryden.
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2. Causing unhappiness or misery.
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What 's more miserable than discontent? --Shak.
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3. Worthless; mean; despicable; as, a miserable fellow; a
miserable dinner.
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Miserable comforters are ye all. --Job xvi. 2.
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4. Avaricious; niggardly; miserly. [Obs.] --Hooker.
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Syn: Abject; forlorn; pitiable; wretched.
[1913 Webster]Miserable \Mis"er*a*ble\, n.
A miserable person. [Obs.] --Sterne.
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Miserableness
(gcide) | Miserableness \Mis"er*a*ble*ness\, n.
The state or quality of being miserable.
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miserableness
(wn) | miserableness
n 1: a state of ill-being due to affliction or misfortune; "the
misery and wretchedness of those slums is intolerable"
[syn: misery, wretchedness, miserableness] |
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