1.
If you are ~, you are very unhappy.
I took a series of badly paid secretarial jobs which made me really ~...
ADJ: usu v-link ADJ
miserably
He looked miserably down at his plate.
ADV: usu ADV after v
2.
If you describe a place or situation as ~, you mean that it makes you feel unhappy or depressed.
There was nothing at all in this ~ place to distract him.
= depressing
ADJ: usu ADJ n
3.
If you describe the weather as ~, you mean that it makes you feel depressed, because it is raining or dull.
It was a grey, wet, ~ day...
ADJ
4.
If you describe someone as ~, you mean that you do not like them because they are bad-tempered or unfriendly.
He always was a ~ man. He never spoke to me nor anybody else.
ADJ: ADJ n
5.
You can describe a quantity or quality as ~ when you think that it is much smaller or worse than it ought to be.
Our speed over the ground was a ~ 2.2 knots...
ADJ: usu a ADJ amount emphasis
miserably
...the miserably inadequate supply of books now provided for schools.
ADV: ADV adj
6.
A ~ failure is a very great one.
The film was a ~ commercial failure both in Italy and in the United States.
ADJ: ADJ n emphasis
miserably
Some manage it. Some fail miserably.
ADV: ADV with v