miserable

(s) very unhappy; full of misery
- he felt depressed and miserable
- a message of hope for suffering humanity
- wretched prisoners huddled in stinking cages
suffering, wretched,
(s) 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
hapless, misfortunate, pathetic, piteous, poor, pitiable, pitiful, wretched,
(s) 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
abject, low-down, scummy, scurvy, low,
(s) of very poor quality or condition
- deplorable housing conditions in the inner city
- woeful treatment of the accused
- woeful errors of judgment
execrable, wretched, deplorable, woeful,
(s) characterized by physical misery
- a wet miserable weekend
- spent a wretched night on the floor
wretched,
(s) 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
measly, paltry,

Synonyms

suffering wretched hapless misfortunate pathetic piteous poor pitiable pitiful abject low-down scummy scurvy low execrable deplorable woeful measly paltry

Words of close approximity

miserably

miserableness