miserable

Adjective
  1. Very unhappy;
    Full of misery (synset 301153708)
    "he felt depressed and miserable"; "a message of hope for suffering humanity"; "wretched prisoners huddled in stinking cages"
    similar to: unhappy - experiencing or marked by or causing sadness or sorrow or discontent
    same as: suffering, wretched
  2. Deserving or inciting pity (synset 301054589)
    "a hapless victim"; "miserable victims of war"; "the shabby room struck her as extraordinarily pathetic"; "piteous appeals for help"; "pitiable homeless children"; "a pitiful fate"; "Oh, you poor thing"; "his poor distorted limbs"; "a wretched life"
    similar to: unfortunate - not favored by fortune; marked or accompanied by or resulting in ill fortune
    same as: hapless, misfortunate, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor, wretched
  3. Of the most contemptible kind (synset 300907967)
    "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"
    similar to: contemptible - deserving of contempt or scorn
    same as: abject, low, low-down, scummy, scurvy
  4. Of very poor quality or condition (synset 302355625)
    "deplorable housing conditions in the inner city"; "woeful treatment of the accused"; "woeful errors of judgment"
    similar to: inferior - of low or inferior quality
    same as: deplorable, execrable, woeful, wretched
  5. Characterized by physical misery (synset 300480862)
    "a wet miserable weekend"; "spent a wretched night on the floor"
    similar to: uncomfortable - providing or experiencing physical discomfort
    same as: wretched
  6. Contemptibly small in amount (synset 300108195)
    "a measly tip"; "the company donated a miserable $100 for flood relief"; "a paltry wage"; "almost depleted his miserable store of dried beans"
    similar to: meager, meagerly, meagre, scrimpy, stingy - deficient in amount or quality or extent
    same as: measly, paltry

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