miserable

miserable /'maizərəbl/
  • tính từ
    • cực khổ, khốn khổ, khổ sở, cùng khổ; đáng thương
    • tồi tàn, nghèo nàn
      • a miserable house: căn nhà tồi tàn
      • a miserable meal: bữa ăn nghèo nàn

Xem thêm: suffering, wretched, hapless, misfortunate, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor, wretched, abject, low, low-down, scummy, scurvy, deplorable, execrable, woeful, wretched, wretched, measly, paltry



miserable

Từ điển Collocation

miserable adj.

VERBS be, feel, look We got home feeling tired and miserable. | become

ADV. bloody (taboo), damned, dead, intensely, really, very | thoroughly, utterly | pretty, quite, rather

PREP. about feeling utterly miserable about his exams


Từ điển WordNet

    adj.

  • very unhappy; full of misery; suffering, wretched

    he felt depressed and miserable

    a message of hope for suffering humanity

    wretched prisoners huddled in stinking cages

  • deserving or inciting pity; hapless, misfortunate, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor, wretched

    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

  • of the most contemptible kind; abject, low, low-down, scummy, scurvy

    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

  • of very poor quality or condition; deplorable, execrable, woeful, wretched

    deplorable housing conditions in the inner city

    woeful treatment of the accused

    woeful errors of judgment

  • characterized by physical misery; wretched

    a wet miserable weekend

    spent a wretched night on the floor

  • contemptibly small in amount; measly, paltry

    a measly tip

    the company donated a miserable $100 for flood relief

    a paltry wage

    almost depleted his miserable store of dried beans


English Synonym and Antonym Dictionary


syn.: mean pitiful poor shabby sorry unhappy woeful wretched

ant.: happy