Miserable

Definition: Miserable

Miserable

Adjective

1. Very unhappy; full of misery; "he felt depressed and miserable"; "a message of hope for suffering humanity"; "wretched prisoners huddled in stinking cages".

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"; "couldn't rescue the poor fellow"; "his poor distorted limbs"; "a wretched life".

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".

4. Of very poor quality or condition; "deplorable housing conditions in the inner city"; "woeful treatment of the accused"; "woeful errors of judgment".

5. Characterized by physical misery; "a wet miserable weekend"; "spent a wretched night on the floor".

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".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "miserable" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Synonyms: Miserable

Pain

Unhappy, infelicitous, poor, wretched, miserable, woe-begone; cheerless; (dejected); careworn.

Unimportance

Poor, paltry, pitiful; contemptible; (contempt); sorry, mean, meager, shabby, miserable, wretched, vile, scrubby, scrannel, weedy, scurvy, putid, beggarly, worthless, twopennyhalfpenny, cheap, trashy, catchpenny, gimcrack, trumpery; one-horse. not worth the pains, not worth while, not worth mentioning, not worth speaking of, not worth a thought, not worth a curse, not worth a straw; Noun: beneath notice, unworthy of notice, beneath regard, unworthy of regard, beneath consideration, unworthy of consideration; de lana caprina; vain; (useless).

Crosswords: Miserable

Spanish (abject, beggarly, dismal, meager, measly, miserable, moldy, mouldy, paltry, poor, sordid, squalid, twopenny, wretched).

Nothin' but a miserable little $500 equity in a life insurance policy (It's a Wonderful Life; writing credit: Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett and Frank Capra. based on the story 'The Greatest Gift' by Philip Van Doren Stern.)

It's just like those miserable psalms, always so depressing (Monty Python and the Holy Grail; writing credit: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin.)

Nicely put, Frank, but I don't want to leave this miserable world alone (In the Line of Fire; writing credit: Jeff Maguire)

To spend his life pining for you, and to die miserable and alone (Twister; writing credit: Michael Crichton; Anne-Marie Martin)

It's conceivable, you miserable vomitous mass (The Princess Bride; writing credit: William Goldman)

Don't be down and miserable (Give It Up, Turn It Loose; performing artist: En Vogue)

The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable. (references; author: unknown)

It's a Miserable Life (1979)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• My Miserable Mother-In-Law (reference)

• Our Miserable Life (reference)

• Toxic People: 10 Ways of Dealing With People Who Make Your Life Miserable (reference)

• When Am I Going to Be Happy?: How to Break the Emotional Bad Habits That Make You Miserable (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• New Miserable Experience (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Tellurometer traverse somewhere cold and miserable Note clouds below station. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

The lament of Oedipus, blind: "Oh, miserable am I". Credit: Library of Congress.

People living in miserable poverty, Elm Grove, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

But the state of mankind is not so miserable that they are not capable of using this remedy, till it be too late to look for any. (Second Treatise of Government)

Ultimately, when stubborn historical facts had dispersed all intoxicating effects of self-deception, this form of Socialism ended in a miserable fit of the blues. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

The hair was curled, and the maid sent away, and Emma sat down to think and be miserable.

It would not reflect, or only with miserable dimness, the figures with which I did my best to people it.

A subterranean edifice built in common by all the miserable.

O what agony then for the miserable sinners

He said that must needs be a miserable country which cannot furnish food for its own inhabitants

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

A person with P. falciparum malaria, however, is apt to feel miserable even between attacks and, without treatment, is in danger of dying. (references)

If a patient falls during seizures that occur only a few times a year, repeated injuries and trips to emergency rooms can make life miserable. (references)

There is no evidence that a true food allergy can affect a child's activity except for the proviso that if a child itches and sneezes and wheezes a lot, the child may be miserable and therefore more difficult to guide. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Expressions using "miserable": drag out a miserable existence ♦ feel miserable ♦ make miserable ♦ measly miserable paltry ♦ miserable pension. Additional references.

Beginning with "miserable": miserable-looking.

Afrikaans

sleg (bad, badly, nasty, poor), kwaai (bad, nasty, poor), arm (arm, poor), berooid (needy), beroerd (abject, bad, dismal, meager, nasty, poor, wretched), beklagenswaardig (dismal, pitiful, poor), beklaenswaardig (dismal, pitiful, poor), beklaaglik (dismal, pitiful, poor), behoeftig (needy), bedruk (dejected, depressed, dismal, gaunt, print, sad), bedroewend (dismal). (various references)

Albanian

keq (awry, bad, badly, downhill, foul, nasty, poor, poorly), i varfër (bad, beggarly, destitute, fortuneless, impecunious, indigent, lame, lazarus, low-lived, meager, meagre, mean, one horse, penurious, poor, spare, squalid, wretched), i trishtuar (blue, cheerless, comfortless, dark, disappointed, disappointing, doleful, down, dreary, elegiac, funereal, gloomy, grievous, joyless, lugubrious, melancholy, minor, mirthless, mopish, mournful, pensive, rueful, sad, tristful, unhappy, vapoury, wailful, wan, wistful, woebegone, woeful, woesome), i mjerë (abject, crummy, desolate, dismal, forlorn, ill fated, ill-starred, infelicitous, lowlife, paltry, penurious, pimping, piteous, sorry, unhappy, unlucky, worm), fatkeq (calamitous, fortuneless, hapless, ill fated, ill-omened, unfortunate, unhappy, unlucky, washout, wretched). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مغلوب على أمره (helpless, powerless), ‏مدقع (wretched), ‏هزيل (exiguous, gaunt, haggard, lean, meager, meagre, peak, peaky, pitiful, scanty, scrawny, short, sickly, sketchy, skimp, skimpy, skinny, slender, slight, slim, spare, sparing, stingy, watery, wretched), ‏حزين (afflicted, cheerless, dejected, depressed, doleful, dolorous, downcast, drear, dreary, lamentable, lugubrious, melancholic, mournful, pathetic, plaintive, rueful, sad, sore, sorrowful, sorry, sullen, unhappy, wailful, weary, wistful, woeful), ‏تعيس (poor thing, unfortunate, unhappy, wretched), ‏زري (crummy, disreputable, frowzy), ‏التعيس (unfortunate, wretch), ‏شقي بائس, ‏بائس (afflicted, cheerless, deplorable, desolate, devil, disconsolate, distressed, forlorn, godforsaken, hapless, heel, helpless, lamentable, measly, paltry, pathetic, penurious, piteous, pitiful, poor, poverty stricken, ratty, sad, scruffy, seedy, sickly, sordid, squalid, unfortunate, unhappy, woeful, wretched). (various references)

Bulgarian 

ужасен (aghast, appalling, awful, bloodcurdling, deadly, desperate, deuced, devastating, dire, direful, dreadful, eldritch, execrable, fearful, fearsome, frantic, frightful, furious, ghastly, great, grievous, grisly, gruesome, horrible, horrid, horror-stricken, lurid, macabre, morbid, murderous, planet-stricken, planet-struck, precious, sad, septic, terrible, terrific, towering, tremendous, unholy, unmentionable, vicious, wretched), клет (pitiable, poor, woeful), отчаян (agonized, despairing, desperate, distressed, downcast, down-hearted, exanimate, last ditch, lost), отвратителен (abhorrent, abominable, accursed, accurst, atrocious, awful, beastly, bestial, carrion, creepy, cursed, damnable, detestable, disgustful, disgusting, distasteful, execrable, foul, fulsome, gruesome, hateful, heinous, hideous, horrible, ill-favored, ill-favoured, infamous, loathsome, lousy, morbid, nasty, nauseous, noisome, odious, offensive, punk, putrid, rank, repellent, revolting, rotten, septic, shocking, sickening, ugly, unholy, unsavory, unsavoury, unspeakable, villainous, wicked), окаян (abject, beggarly, deplorable, despicable, forlorn, reprobate, squalid, wretched), невъзможен (bloody minded, impossible, infamous, monstrous, perishing, pestilent, terrible, unchristian, unfeasible, unthinkable, villainous, wretched), нищожен (exiguous, footling, insignificant, naught, negligible, nominal, nugatory, outside, paltry, peddling, pettifogging, pygmy, shabby, trifling, trivial), мизерен (abject, flea-bitten, mangy, poverty stricken, ratty, sordid, squalid, wretched), злочест (hapless, ill fated, star-crossed, unfortunate, unhappy, woebegone, wretched), жалък (abject, lamentable, mangy, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, pokey, poor, sad, scabbed, scabby, scaly, scrubby, sorrowful, sorry, squalid, woeful), лош (bad, chronic, cobbler, evil, fie-fie, foul, ill natured, ill tempered, ill-conditioned, inferior, loose, lousy, malefic, maleficent, malign, mean, miscreant, nasty, naughty, poor, rough, rugged, severe, shoddy, sinister, sorry, thumping, ugly, vicious, wicked, wrong). (various references)

Catalan

pobre (poor). (various references)

Chinese 

苦 (bitter, intensely, painful), 慘 (badly, cruel, inhuman, seriously, tragic, wretched), �'慘 , 悲慘 (tragic), 凄惨. (various references)

Czech

mizerný (abysmal, bad, bleeding, bum, cheap, crappy, crummy, dismal, foul, lousy, painful, paltry, rotten, stingy, tinpot, vile, wretched), ubreèený, ubohý (crappy, deplorable, dingy, dismal, down in the mouth, grotty, paltry, pitiable, poor, sleazy, wretched), smutný (dismal, distressing, doleful, elegiac, gloomy, plaintive, sad, sorrowful, tearful, unhappy, upset, woeful, woesome), nepříjemný (annoying, awkward, difficult, disagreeable, embarrassing, irksome, irritating, nasty, objectionable, sticky, troublesome, uncomfortable, uncongenial, uneasy, unpleasant, unsavory, untoward, vexatious), bezútìšný (bleak, cheerless, comfortless, desolate, dreary, gaunt, grim), bídný (abject, bad, eagre, low down, mean, pitiful, scurvy, sordid, squalid, wretched), šedivý (ashy-gray, dull, glaucous, gray haired, grey, grey haired, hoary, iron-grey, lifeless). (various references)

Danish

slet (bad, nasty, poor), ond (bad, nasty, poor), fattig (poor), dårlig (bad, nasty, poor), bedrøvet (dismal, dreary, gaunt, sad). (various references)

Dutch

miserabel (abject, dismal, meager, wretched), mistroostig (bleak, dismal, dreary, gaunt, sad, somber, sullen), belabberd (abject, dismal, meager, wretched), erbarmelijk (poor), erbarmelýk (dismal, pitiful, poor), ellendig (abject, dismal, meager, miserably, wretched), droevig (dismal, gaunt, sad, sadly), droef (dismal, gaunt, mallet, sad), catastrofaal (abject, catastrophic), jammerlýk, beroerd (bad, nasty, poor), kwaad (abuse, angry, bad, cross, nasty, poor), beklagenswaardig (dismal, pitiful, poor), behoeftig (needy), bedroevend (deplorable, dismal, pitiable, sad), bedroefd (dismal, dreary, gaunt, sad), armoedig (poor), armelijk (poor), armelýk (poor), arm (arm, crank, poor), 11.behoeftig, berooid (needy), schamel (abject, dismal, meager, poor, wretched), verkeerd (bad, by mistake, erroneous, incorrect, mistaken, nasty, poor, wrong), verdrietig (dismal, fretful, gaunt, morose, peevish, sad, sadly, sorrowful, sullen), triestig (bleak, dismal, dreary, gaunt, sad, somber, sullen), treurig (dismal, dreary, gaunt, sad), stumperig (abject, awkward, clumsy, dismal, meager, wretched), somber (bleak, dark, desolate, dismal, dreary, gaunt, gloomy, mournful, sad, somber, sullen), smartelijk (painful), smartelýk (dismal, painful), jammerlijk, schunnig (abject, base, dismal, low, meager, nasty, obscene, vile, wretched), 10.belabberd, rampzalig (abject, catastrophic), onzalig, nooddruftig (needy), naargeestig (bleak, desolate, dismal, dreary, gaunt, gloomy, mournful, sad, somber, sullen), kwalijk (hardly, nasty, poor, scarcely), kwalýk (bad, barely, hardly, nasty, only just, poor, scarcely), zielig (dismal, pitiful, poor), jammerlijk, slecht (bad, badly, nasty, poor). (various references)

Esperanto

mizera (abject, dismal, meager, wretched), malriĉa (poor), malgaja (bleak, dismal, dreary, gaunt, sad, somber), malfeliĉiga, malbona (bad, nasty, poor), malĝojiga (dismal), malĝoja (dismal, gaunt, sad), senhava (needy), kompatinda (dismal, pitiful, poor), katastrofa (catastrophic), bedaŭriga. (various references)

Faeroese

syrgin (dismal, dreary, gaunt, sad), syrgiligur (bleak, dismal, dreary, gaunt, sad, somber, sullen), ringur (bad, nasty, poor, ring), neyðars (abject, dismal, meager, poor, wretched), neyðar (abject, dismal, meager, wretched), fátækur (gaunt, lean, meager, poor, skimpy, skinny, thin), óglaður (bleak, dismal, dreary, gaunt, sad, somber, sullen). (various references)

Farsi 

تیره روز, تیره بخت (Unlucky), بدبخت (Gray, Infelicitous, Sorry, Unblessed, Unblest, Unfortunate, Unhappy, Woeful, Wretch, Wretched). (various references)

Finnish

viheliäinen (wretched), vaivainen (cripple, invalid, wretched), surkea (deplorable, dismal, lamentable, pitiful, sad, wretched), säälittävä (piteous, pitiable, pitiful, to be pitied, wretched), rähjä (wretched), kurja (pitiable, poor, wretched). (various references)

French

pauvre, misérable, malheureux. (various references)

Frisian

skiterich (abject, dismal, meager, wretched), heukerich (abject, dismal, meager, poor, wretched), fertrietlik (dismal, gaunt, sad), ferdrietlik (bleak, dismal, dreary, gaunt, sad, somber, sullen), earmoedig (abject, dismal, meager, wretched), earmoedich (poor), earmhertich (abject, dismal, meager, wretched), earm (arm, poor), drôf (bleak, dismal, dreary, gaunt, sad, somber, sullen). (various references)

German

elend (abject, awful, calamitous, calamitously, calamitousness, confounded, destitution, dismal, distress, dreadful, hardship, meager, miserably, misery, penury, pitiable, pitiful, plight, poorly, poverty, sick, sordid, sordidness, squalid, squalor, unhappiness, woeful, woefully, woefulness, wretched, wretchedly, wretchedness), unglücklich (hapless, ill fated, inauspicious, infelicitous, miserably, sad, unfortunate, unfortunately, unhappily, unhappy, unjoyous, unluckily, unlucky, unrequited, unsuccessful, untoward), traurig (baleful, balefully, blue, cheerless, dismal, doleful, funereal, gaunt, lugubrious, lugubriously, mournful, mournfully, notorious, pathetic, plaintively, sad, sadly, sorrowful, sorrowfully, sorry, unhappy, upsetting), jämmerlich (abject, deplorable, despicable, dismal, lamentable, lamentably, meager, miserably, pathetic, pitiful, pitifully, sorry, wretched), erbärmlich (abject, abjectly, depressingly, disgraceful, disgracefully, dismal, hideous, lamentable, lamentably, meager, miserably, paltrily, paltry, pathetically, piteous, piteously, pitiable, pitiful, pitifully, poor, sordid, squalid, terrible, wretched). (various references)

Greek 

κακόμοιρος (hapless, wretch), κακομοίρησ (poor), χάλια (rotten), ελεεινόσ (abject, beggarly, deplorable, disgraceful, forlorn, haggard, piteous, pitiable, scrub, scrubby, seedy, sorry, wretched), ελεεινός (wretched), άθλιοσ (abject, beastly, beggarly, caitiff, forlorn, putrid, scullion, squalid, unblessed, Unblest, villainous, wretched), άθλιος (abject, lousy, squalid), ταλαίπωροσ (poor), δυστυχισμένος (unhappy). (various references)

Hawaiian

keq (bad, badly, nasty, poor). (various references)

Hebrew 

מזולזל (disregarded, disrespected), מרו�" (depressed, wretched), מסכן (hapless, pitiful, poor, poor thing, unfortunate, wretched), עלוב (abject, god forsaken, humbled, mean, measly, pitiful, poor, seamy, worthless, wretched), ע� י (impecunious, indigent, pauper, penurious, poor, poor person, wretched), אומלל (disconsolate, feeble, hapless, poor, unfortunate, unhappy, wretched), אביון (beggar, destitute, needy, pauper, poor person, wretched), �"ל (humble, light, meagre, penurious, poor, scanty, spare), �"פוק (beaten, faulty), � קש�" (embittered). (various references)

Hungarian

szerencsétlen (calamitous, catastrophic, disastrous, fey, hapless, ill fated, ill-starred, luckless, misadventurous, sad, star-crossed, stiff, to sink money in an unfortunate undertaking, unchancy, unfortunate, unhappy, unlucky, untoward, woeful, woesome, wretched), szegény (beggar, hungry, impecunious, indigent, lowly born, needy, pauper, penniless, poor, poor person, skint, to be skint), szánalmas (deplorable, forlorn, lamentable, miserly, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, sad, woeful, woesome), rossz (as mischievous as a monkey, bad, baseness, be naughty, crappy, crook, crummy, disagreeable, disreputableness, evil, gimpy, half-assed, hank, harm, have the needles, ill, ill temper, ill-treatment, incorrect, iniquitous, maleficent, meagre, mischief, mischievous, misgiving, naff, nasty, naughty, poor, punk, raunchy, shabby excuse, sleazo, sleazy, sniffy, stinky, tin-pot, to be in a bad way, to be on bad terms with sy, to be on the wrong track, to be out of kilter, to feel poorly, to go the wrong way, to go to the bad, to make bad weather, unsavory, unsavoury, vicious, wrong), nyomorult (abject, bally, blankety-blank, bum, damned, godforsaken, jay, pimping, slave, wretch, wretched), nyomorúságos (abject, deplorable, dingy, pelting, piteous, pitiable, pokey, poky, poverty-stricken, squalid, tin-pot), boldogtalan (hapless, infelicitous, unhappy, wretched). (various references)

Icelandic

vondur (bad, nasty, poor), slæmur (bad, nasty, poor), illur (bad, nasty, poor), fátækur (poor), dapur (bleak, dismal, dreary, gaunt, sad, somber, sullen). (various references)

Indonesian

melas (inspiring pity), tidak senang (discontented). (various references)

Irish

olc (bad, nasty, poor), dona (bad, nasty, poor, unlucky; bad), brónach (dismal, gaunt). (various references)

Italian

misero (abject, dismal, forlorn, meager, mean, narrow, poor, poverty stricken, scanty, spare, squalid, unfortunate, wretched), miserabile (abject, despicable, dismal, meager, mean, measly, misery, poor, poverty stricken, sorry, unhappiness, wretch, wretched, wretchedness), afflitto (bleak, destressed, dismal, dreary, gaunt, mournful, pained, sad, somber, sorrowful, sorrowing, sorry, sullen, unhappy), triste (black, bleak, blue, blue-deviled, blue-devilled, cheerless, dark, dejected, disconsolate, dismal, doleful, dreary, dull, dusky, gaunt, gloomy, heavy, hipped, lachrymose, moody, moped, sad, somber, sombre, sorrowful, sorry, sullen, unhappy, wan, woebegone), povero (abject, arm, bare, beggarly, dismal, indigent, meager, meagre, needy, poor, poor man, unfortunate, wretched), disgraziato (hapless, sorrowful, unfortunate, unhappy, unlucky, woeful, woesome, wretch, wretched), cattivo (airy-fairy, bad, evil, foul, frolic, frolicsome, ill, ill natured, mad, malicious, nasty, naughty, perverse, petulant, poor, spiteful, unkind, vicious, wicked). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

無惨 (atrocious, cruel, pitiful, tragic), 惨め . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ミゼラブル , なさけない (deplorable, pitiable, shameful), さ�"た�"たる, わびしい (comfortless, dreary, lonely, shabby, wretched), あさましい (abject, despicable, mean, shameful, wretched), むざ�" (atrocious, atrocity, cold-bloodedness, cruel, cruelty, pitiful, tragic), やるせない (cheerless, disconsolate, downhearted, dreary, helpless), みじめ (pitiful, sad, wretched), はかない (empty, ephemeral, fickle, fleeting, momentary, short-lived, transient, vain). (various references)

Korean 

비참한 (Abject, Disastrous, Wretched). (various references)

Lombard

poverett (poor), gram (bad, nasty, poor). (various references)

Manx

truanagh (mournful, sorrowful person), trome-chreeagh (dejected, dolorous, heavy-hearted, low-spirited), trimshagh (affecting; lamentation; sad person, baleful, dismal, grievous, heavy, heavy sorrowful, lugubrious, mournful, plaintive, sad, saddened, sorrowful, sorrowful person), treih (abject, deplorable, doughy, drawn, feeble, forlorn, fragile, haggard, pale, pale-faced, pallid, pasty, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, regrettable, rueful, sallow, seedy, sickly, wan, wretched, wretched of thing), neuvaynrey (sad, unhappy), neughennal (cheerless, unamiable), meevaynrey (dismal, infelicitous, unhappy), lhag-chreeagh (depressed, despondent, dispirited, down-hearted, faint-hearted), kercheenagh (abject, cringing, cullionly, dependent, down-and-out, impoverished, impoverishing, rotten, servile, shabby, slavish, truckle, vile, vile morally), doolagh (broody, broody of person, dismal, downcast), boght (deprived, grotty, pauper, poor, shabby, shoddy, skinny). (various references)

Norwegian

sturen (bleak, dismal, dreary, gaunt, sad, somber, sullen), fattig (poor), dårlig (bad, nasty, poor). (various references)

Papiamen

miserabel (abject, dismal, meager, wretched), malu (bad, badly, ill, nasty, poor, sick, unwell), malo (bad, ill, nasty, poor, sick, unwell), tristu (bleak, dismal, dreary, gaunt, sad, somber, sullen), pober (beggar, poor), desastroso (abject, catastrophic). (various references)

Pig Latin

iserablemay.(various references)

Polish

zły (bad, nasty, poor), smutny (bleak, dismal, dreary, gaunt, sad, somber, sullen), biedny (poor). (various references)

Portuguese

miserável (abject, costive, dismal, evil, godforsaken, logy, meager, misbegotten, miscreant, miserly, paltry, picayune, pimping, poky, poor, rascally, scaly, scoundrel, scurvy, skinflint, sordid, squalid, wretch, wretched), mau (bad, bum, dark, evil, graceless, ill, ill-conditioned, ill-favored, ill-favoured, malignant, mischievous, nasty, perverse, poor, punk, sinful, two-bit, unjust, unrighteous, venomous, vicious, vile, villainous, wrong), pobre (almsman, beggar, beggarly, close-fisted, destitute, eleemosynary, hard set, hungry, indigent, jejune, lazarus, mean, mendicant, necessitous, needy, pauper, penniless, penurious, poor, shabby). (various references)

Romanian

mizerabil (abject, despicable, dirty, godforsaken, grovelling, miserably, pitiable, unlucky, villainous, wretch, wretched), mizer (beggarly, sorry, squalid), trist (bleak, blue, cheerless, dark, darkish, depressing, dispirited, doleful, dolefully, dolorous, downcast, drab, dreary, dull, dumpish, elegiac, glum, joyless, lamenting, maudlin, melancholy, mournful, mournfully, pensive, pensively, rueful, sad, sadly, sorrowful, splenetic, sullen, tough, unfortunate, unhappy, woebegone, woeful), sårac (poor), sãrãcãcios (baldly, barely, barren, humble, mean, meanly, modest, penurious, poky, poor, poorly, poverty stricken, scant, shabby, slender, sorry, sparing), råu (bad, nasty, poor), rãu (Amiss, atrocious, awkward, awry, bad, bad for, bad-hearted, badly, baleful, black, bum, corrupt, depraved, evil, flagitious, foul, haggish, harm, ill, immoral, lousy, malefic, maleficent, malicious, malign, mischief, mischievous, naughty, perverse, rough, scoundrel, sickness, thin, unspeakable, useless, venomous, vicious, vile, wicked, wretched, wrong), prost (ass, bad, badly, beef-witted, blinkard, blockhead, blunt, booby, calf, cheap, clumsy, cock eyed, common, dead, dolt, doltish, donkey, dull, dullard, dumb, dunce, dunderhead, flat, fool, foolish, good for nothing, goof, goon, goose, Goosey, gull, harmful, idiot, idiotish, inhospitable, lousy, lubber-head, nincompoop, ninny, nitwit, nitwitted, noddy, noodle, numskull, numskulled, oaf, oafish, pin head, poor, poorly, silly, simple, simpleton, snipe, soft, soft-headed, sorry, spoony, stupid, thoughtless, unfavorable, unfavourable, wretched, zombie), nenorocit (abject, baleful, disastrous, forlorn, grievous, grub, hapless, lame duck, mean, measly, miser, pilgarlic, rascal, rotten, sad, scullion, unfortunate, unhappy, wretch, wretched), nefericit (ill fated, infelicitous, unfortunate, unhappy, unlucky, wretch, wretched), jalnic (beggarly, deplorable, distressing, doleful, forlorn, heart rending, lamentable, lamentably, lamenting, mangy, mean, miserably, mournful, pathetic, pathetically, piteous, pitiable, plaintive, rueful, ruefully, sad, sorrowful, sorry, squalid, woeful, wretched), groaznic (appalling, awful, awfully, baleful, desperate, dire, dreadful, foul, frightful, ghastly, grim, groovy, gruesome, horrendous, horrent, horrible, horribly, horrid, howling, lousy, miserably, monstrous, sad, scary, shocking, terrible, terribly, vile), calicesc (beggarly, poor, wretched), biet (piteous, poor, unfortunate, unlucky), abject (abject, abjectly, cringing, low, mean, nefarious, slavish). (various references)

Russian 

убогий (impoverished, lean, squalid), несчастный;жалкий, несчастный (desolate, disconsolate, hapless, hard, infelicitous, lack-all, lorn, pitiable, poor, sorry, star-crossed, unblessed, unfortunate, unhappy, woeful, wretch, wretched), бедственный (calamitous, catastrophic, disastrous), бедняцкий (poor), бедный (beggarly, hand-to-mouth, impecunious, lean, livid, low-lived, one horse, penurious, poor, poverty stricken, poverty-stricken), печальный (comfortless, deplorable, disappointing, disconsolate, dolorous, heavyhearted, heavy-hearted, lachrymose, lamentable, languishing, lugubrious, mournful, pensive, sad, sorrowful, sorry, tearful, tristful, wailful), плохой (bad, nasty, poor, punk, ropey, third rate, third-rate, wicked). (various references)

Scottish

truagh (I pity, unhappy : is truagh leam, wretched), olc (bad, evil, mischief, nasty, poor, wicked, wickedness), droch (bad, evil, evil deed, evil; precedes n. and a. : droch-bheart, nasty, poor), dona (bad, evil, nasty, poor), cr� idhteach (afflicted, causing, grievous), bochd (poor, poor person, sick). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

mizeran (pitiful), rđav (bad, ill, naught, naughty, punk, rotten, unimprovable, wicked), nesrećan (calamitous, down in the mouth, fortuneless, graceless, inauspicious, infelicitous, unchancy, unfortunate, unhappy, unlucky), loš (abominable, bad, gross, lousy, mean, poor, refuse, shoddy, trashy, vile), jadan (deplorable, jejune, lamentable, pelting, piteous, pitiable, poor, wretched), bedan (abject, beggarly, crummy, distressful, lamentable, mangy, needy, pelting, pitiable, poor, rubbishy, squalid, wretched). (various references)

Spanish

triste (bleak, blue, cheerless, dark, depressing, dismal, doleful, dolorous, drear, dreary, gaunt, gloomy, glum, heavy, hipped, joyless, joylessly, mirthless, mournful, rueful, sad, somber, sorrowful, sorry, sullen, unhappy), pobre (abject, beggar, destitute, dismal, hungry, impecunious, indigent, jimp, meager, meagre, mingy, miserly, needy, pathetic, pathetical, pauper, penurious, poor, scrappy, wretched), miserable (abject, beggarly, dismal, meager, measly, moldy, mouldy, paltry, poor, sordid, squalid, twopenny, wretched), necesitado (abject, dismal, in need, meager, necessitous, needy, poor, taken, underprivileged, wretched), menesteroso (abject, dismal, meager, needy, poverty stricken, underprivileged, wretched), malo (Amiss, bad, black-hearted, bum, difficult, disagreeable, disgusting, erroneous, evil, evil-wishing, hard, ill, inconvenient, lower, mischievous, mistaken, nasty, naughty, ornery, poor, punk, sick, tacky, tough, troubled, unsound, villain, wicked, wretched, wrong), indigente (destitute, indigent, necessitous, needy, poor), deplorable (deplorable, dismal, pitiful, poor, regrettable), afligido (afflicted, aggrieved, bereaved, bleak, desolate, dismal, distressed, dreary, gaunt, mournful, pained, sad, somber, sorrowful, sorry, stricken, sullen, troubled). (various references)

Sranan

poti (lay down, place, poor, put, put down), pina (abide, bear, endure, poor, put up with, suffer), ogri (bad, nasty, poor), kway (bad, nasty, poor). (various references)

Swahili

maskini (poor), hafifu (faint, light, poor, weak). (various references)

Swedish

usel (abject, abysmal, bad, base, bum, cheesy, dastardly, execrable, ignoble, low, mean, paltry, pitiful, poor, shoddy, tacky, trashy, vile, worthless, wretched), fattig (impecunious, impoverished, indigent, meagre, necessitous, needy, paltry, penurious, poor, poverty-striken), förtvivlad (agonized, desperate, despondent, forlorn, piteous), eländig (forlorn, grubby, rotten, seamy), ömklig (dastardly, despicable, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, pityful). (various references)

Tagalog

masamâ (bad, nasty, poor), malungkót (bleak, dismal, dreary, gaunt, sad, somber, sullen), mahírap (poor). (various references)

Turkish

sefil (abject, beggarly, dead end, destitute, down and out, down at heels, hangdog, poor, poverty stricken, rep, ropy, shabby, sordid, squalid, starveling, wretch, wretched), kötü (bad, badly, black, chintzy, devilish, dread, dreadfull, evil, feeble, fierce, grotty, harmful, haunted, hedge, hellish, horrible, horrid, ill, indifferent, iniquitous, lousy, malign, mis-, miscreant, nasty, nefarious, obnoxious, off, offensive, poor, poorly, portentous, purple, rough, seamy, shady, sinister, sticky, stinking, ugly, unhallowed, unrighteous, vicious, wicked, worse, wrongful), fena (angrily, bad, badly, evil, foul, ill, malicious, nasty, poor, poorly, sinful, sinister, unholy, vicious, wicked), acikli (affecting, dismal, dreary, gaunt, moving, sad, touching, tragedy, tragic). (various references)

Ukrainian

кепський (bad, dying, moldy, mouldy, nasty, naught, naughty, poor), нужденний (destitute, helpless, indigent, necessitous, needful, needy, penniless, poor, poverty stricken, poverty-struck), мізерний (bare, beggarly, feeble, insignificant, naught, nominal, outside, paltry, pitiable, pokey, poky), жалюгідний (abject, beggarly, caitiff, contemptible, deplorable, forlorn, impoverished, lamentable, mean, parsimonious, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor, queachy, snide, sorry, tatty, woeful, woesome, wretched), бідолашний (caitiff, calamitous, hapless, ill-starred). (various references)

Vietnamese 

nghèo n� n (poorly, slim), khổ sở (unhappy, woebegone), khốn khổ (small, wretched), cùng khổ; đáng thương t�"i t� n, cực khổ. (various references)

Welsh

truenus (wretched), truan (poor, wretch, wretched), tlawd (destitute, poor), gresynus (wretched), drwg (bad, evil, frolic, frolicsome, harm, hurt, nasty, naughty, petulant, poor, wicked), annifyr (unpleasant), anniddan (comfortless), annedwydd (unhappy), adfydus (adverse). (various references)

Yucatec

yah tu yool (dismal, dreary, gaunt, sad), tuukul (dismal, dreary, gaunt, sad, think), otsil (poor), k'as (bad, nasty, poor). (various references)

Zulu

-mpofu (poor), -bolile (bad, nasty, poor), -bi (bad, nasty, poor). (various references)

malus, misellus, miser, misera, miserabiles, miserabili, miserabiliores, miserabilis, miseram, miseri, miseria, miseris, misero, miseros, miserrima, phaulius. (various references)

earmlic, earmsceapen. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "miserable": miserableness, miserablenesses, miserables. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Miserable" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: iterable, mesurable, miserabili, miserables, miserablish, miserablism, misrable, misserable. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: marbleise.

-1 letter: amberies, measlier.

-2 letters: ambeers, amblers, ambries, bailees, bailers, balmier, beamier, beliers, bemires, berimes, beslime, besmear, besmile, biremes, blamers, lambers, lambier, lambies, limbers, mailers, marbles, mealier, mealies, rambles, realise, realism, remails, seamier, seriema.

-3 letters: abeles, abseil, aeries, aimers, ambeer, ambers, ambler, ambles, ameers, ariels, armies, bailee, bailer, balers, barmie, belier, belies, bemire, berime, bermes.

+1 letter: marbleised, marbleises, marbleizes, miserables.

+3 letters: aeroembolism, boilermakers, emblazonries, immeasurable, immensurable, imperishable, reassemblies, reassembling, reimbursable, semiarboreal, subepidermal.

+4 letters: admirableness, aeroembolisms, bimillenaries, imperishables, imponderables, miserableness, neoliberalism, salmonberries, semipermeable.

+5 letters: formidableness, impressionable, indemonstrable, memorabilities, neoliberalisms, permeabilities, removabilities, superimposable, terminableness.