[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

miserable \mis"erable\, a. f. mis'erable, l. miserabilis,
   fr. miserari to lament, pity, fr. miser wretched. see
   miser.
   1913 webster
   1. very unhappy; wretched; living in misery.
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            what hopes delude thee, miserable man? --dryden.
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   2. causing unhappiness or misery.
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            what 's more miserable than discontent? --shak.
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   3. worthless; mean; despicable; as, a miserable fellow; a
      miserable dinner.
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            miserable comforters are ye all.      --job xvi. 2.
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   4. avaricious; niggardly; miserly. obs. --hooker.
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   syn: abject; forlorn; pitiable; wretched.
        1913 webster
see also:
miser 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

miserable \mis"erable\, n.
   a miserable person. obs. --sterne.
   1913 webster

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

miserable
     adj 1: very unhappy; full of misery; "he felt depressed and
            miserable"; "a message of hope for suffering
            humanity"; "wretched prisoners huddled in stinking
            cages" syn: suffering, wretched
     2: 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" syn: hapless, misfortunate, pathetic,
         piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor, wretched
     3: 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" syn: abject, low, low-down,
         scummy, scurvy
     4: of very poor quality or condition; "deplorable housing
        conditions in the inner city"; "woeful treatment of the
        accused"; "woeful errors of judgment" syn: deplorable,
        execrable, woeful, wretched
     5: characterized by physical misery; "a wet miserable weekend";
        "spent a wretched night on the floor" syn: wretched
     6: 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" syn: measly, paltry
see also:
suffering wretched hapless misfortunate pathetic piteous 
pitiable pitiful poor abject low 
low-down scummy scurvy deplorable execrable 
woeful measly paltry 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

165 moby thesaurus words for "miserable":
   abject, abominable, adverse, afflicted, antagonistic, arrant,
   atrocious, awful, bad, base, beggarly, beneath contempt, cheap,
   cheerless, cheesy, common, conflicting, contemptible, contrary,
   counter, counteractive, crummy, crushed, cut up, debased,
   deep-troubled, degraded, dejected, deplorable, depraved, depressed,
   desolate, despairing, desperate, despicable, despondent,
   detrimental, difficult, dirty, disconsolate, discontented,
   disgraceful, disgusting, dismal, doleful, dolorous, downhearted,
   execrable, flagrant, forlorn, foul, fulsome, gaudy, gimcracky,
   gloomy, glum, grave, grim, gross, hard, harmful, heart-stricken,
   heart-struck, heartbroken, heartsick, heinous, hopeless, hostile,
   humorless, in bad humor, in opposition, inadequate, inclement,
   inconvenient, infestive, inimical, joyless, lachrymose, lamentable,
   little, lousy, low, low-down, low-spirited, lumpen, mangy, mean,
   measly, melancholy, meretricious, mirthless, monstrous, mournful,
   nefarious, not easy, obnoxious, odious, opposed, opposing,
   opposite, out of humor, out of sorts, paltry, pathetic, petty,
   piteous, pitiable, pitiful, pleasureless, poky, poor, rank,
   reptilian, rigorous, rotten, rubbishy, rueful, ruthful, sad,
   scabby, scrubby, scruffy, scummy, scurvy, scuzzy, shabby, shameful,
   shoddy, sinister, small, sorrowful, sorry, sorryish, squalid,
   stressful, stricken, suicidal, tearful, terrible, trashy,
   troublesome, troublous, trumpery, trying, two-for-a-cent,
   two-for-a-penny, twopenny, twopenny-halfpenny, uncheerful,
   uncheery, unfavorable, unhappy, unjoyful, unmentionable,
   unmirthful, unpleasant, unsmiling, untoward, unworthy, valueless,
   vile, woebegone, woeful, worthless, wretched

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