1 very unhappy or uncomfortable:
We were cold, wet and thoroughly miserable. * Don't look so miserable! * She knows how to make life miserable for her employees.
2 making you feel very unhappy or uncomfortable
SYNDEPRESSING:
miserable housing conditions * I spent a miserable weekend alone at home. * What a miserable day (= cold and wet)! * The play was a miserable failure.
3 [onlybeforenoun] (disapproving) (of a person) always unhappy, bad-tempered and unfriendly:
He was a miserable old devil.
4 too small in quantity:
How can anyone live on such a miserable wage?
miserably adverb:
They wandered around miserably. * a miserably cold day * He failed miserably as an actor.
IDIOMS see SINn.
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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Is miserable a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, miserable is tagged as adjective.
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