MISERABLE


Meaning of MISERABLE in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ mɪzərəb(ə)l ]

1.

If you are miserable , you are very unhappy.

I took a series of badly paid secretarial jobs which made me really miserable...

ADJ : usu v-link ADJ

• mis‧er‧ably

He looked miserably down at his plate.

ADV : usu ADV after v

2.

If you describe a place or situation as miserable , you mean that it makes you feel unhappy or depressed.

There was nothing at all in this miserable place to distract him.

= depressing

ADJ : usu ADJ n

3.

If you describe the weather as miserable , you mean that it makes you feel depressed, because it is raining or dull.

It was a grey, wet, miserable day...

ADJ

4.

If you describe someone as miserable , you mean that you do not like them because they are bad-tempered or unfriendly.

He always was a miserable man. He never spoke to me nor anybody else.

ADJ : ADJ n

5.

You can describe a quantity or quality as miserable when you think that it is much smaller or worse than it ought to be.

Our speed over the ground was a miserable 2.2 knots...

ADJ : usu a ADJ amount [ emphasis ]

• mis‧er‧ably

...the miserably inadequate supply of books now provided for schools.

ADV : ADV adj

6.

A miserable failure is a very great one.

The film was a miserable commercial failure both in Italy and in the United States.

ADJ : ADJ n [ emphasis ]

• mis‧er‧ably

Some manage it. Some fail miserably.

ADV : ADV with v

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