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Meaning of miserable

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [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}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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