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1. Very unhappy; full of misery
   "he felt depressed and miserable";
   - suffering, wretched
    
2. Deserving or inciting pity
   "miserable victims of war";
   - hapless, misfortunate, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor, wretched
    
3. Of the most contemptible kind
   "his miserable treatment of his family"; "You miserable skunk!";
   - abject, low, low-down, scummy, scurvy
    
4. Of very poor quality or condition
   "miserable housing conditions in the inner city";
   - deplorable, execrable, woeful, wretched
    
5. Characterized by physical misery
   "a wet miserable weekend";
   - wretched
    
6. Contemptibly small in amount
   "the company donated a miserable $100 for flood relief"; "almost depleted his miserable store of dried beans";
   - measly, paltry

See also: contemptible, inferior, meager [N. Amer], meagerly [N. Amer], meagre [Brit, Cdn], meagrely [Brit, Cdn], scrimpy, stingy [informal], uncomfortable, unfortunate, unhappy

Encyclopedia: Miserable