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1. Very uncomfortable or unhappy; wretched. 2. Causing or accompanied by great discomfort or distress: a miserable climate. 3. Mean or shameful; contemptible: a miserable trick. 4. Wretchedly inadequate: lived in a miserable shack; fed the prisoners miserable rations. 5. Of poor quality; inferior: miserable handicraft.
very unpleasant or bad, and causing someone to feel unhappy: Some families are living in miserable conditions. miserable adjective (NOT ENOUGH) A miserable amount is too small to be acceptable: She offered me a miserable 50 euros for my old computer. (Definition of miserable from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English mis‧e‧ra‧ble /ˈmɪzərəbəl/ S3 W3 adjective 1 extremely unhappy, for example because you feel lonely, cold, or badly treated I’ve been so miserable since Pat left me. I spent the weekend feeling miserable. Jan looks really miserable.
