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Adjective miserable has 6 senses
- miserable, suffering, wretched - very unhappy; full of misery; "he felt depressed and miserable"; "a message of hope for suffering humanity"; "wretched prisoners huddled in stinking cages"
Antonym: happy (indirect, via unhappy)
- hapless, miserable, misfortunate, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor, wretched - 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"
Antonym: fortunate (indirect, via unfortunate)
- abject, low, low-down, miserable, scummy, scurvy - 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"
Antonym: estimable (indirect, via contemptible)
- deplorable, execrable, miserable, woeful, wretched - of very poor quality or condition; "deplorable housing conditions in the inner city"; "woeful treatment of the accused"; "woeful errors of judgment"
Antonym: superior (indirect, via inferior)
- miserable, wretched - characterized by physical misery; "a wet miserable weekend"; "spent a wretched night on the floor"
Antonyms: comfortable, comfy (indirect, via uncomfortable)
- measly, miserable, paltry - 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"
Antonym: ample (indirect, via meager)
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