n. 25B6; adjective
I'm too miserable to eat : UNHAPPY, sad, sorrowful, dejected, depressed, downcast, downhearted, down, despondent, disconsolate, wretched, glum, gloomy, dismal, melancholy, woebegone, doleful, forlorn, heartbroken; informal blue, down in the mouth/dumps.
their miserable surroundings : DREARY, dismal, gloomy, drab, wretched, depressing, grim, cheerless, bleak, desolate; poor, shabby, squalid, seedy, dilapidated.
miserable weather : UNPLEASANT, disagreeable, depressing; wet, rainy, stormy; informal rotten.
a miserable old grouch : GRUMPY, sullen, gloomy, bad-tempered, ill-tempered, dour, surly, sour, glum, moody, unsociable, saturnine, lugubrious, irritable, churlish, cantankerous, crotchety, cross, crabby, grouchy, testy, peevish, crusty, waspish.
miserable wages : INADEQUATE, meagre, scanty, paltry, small, poor, pitiful, niggardly; informal measly, stingy, pathetic; formal exiguous.
all that fuss about a few miserable pounds : WRETCHED, confounded; informal blithering, flaming, blessed, damned, blasted; dated accursed.
cheerful, lovely.