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miserable
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French miserable, from Old French, from Latin miserabilis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?m?z(?)??b?l/
Adjective
miserable (comparative miserabler or more miserable, superlative miserablest or most miserable)
- In a state of misery: very sad, ill, or poor.
- Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.
- Very bad (at something); unskilled, incompetent; hopeless.
- Wretched; worthless; mean; contemptible.
- (obsolete) Causing unhappiness or misery.
- c. 1596–1599, William Shakespeare The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, Act III, scene i:
- For what's more miserable than discontent?
- c. 1596–1599, William Shakespeare The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, Act III, scene i:
- (obsolete) Avaricious; niggardly; miserly.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Hooker to this entry?)
Usage notes
- Nouns to which "miserable" is often applied: life, condition, state, situation, day, time, creature, person, child, failure, place, world, season, year, week, experience, feeling, work, town, city, wage, job, case, excuse, dog.
Synonyms
- (in a state of misery): See Thesaurus:sad or Thesaurus:lamentable
- (very bad (at)): See Thesaurus:unskilled
- (wretched): See Thesaurus:despicable or Thesaurus:insignificant
- (causing unhappiness): See Thesaurus:lamentable
- (miserly): See Thesaurus:stingy or Thesaurus:greedy
Derived terms
Related terms
- miser
- misery
Translations
Noun
miserable (plural miserables)
- A miserable person; a wretch.
- 1838, The Foreign Quarterly Review (volume 21, page 181)
- Dona Carmen repaired to the balcony to chat and jest with, and at, these miserables, who stopped before the door to rest in their progress. All pretended poverty while literally groaning under the weight of their riches.
- 2003, Richard C. Trexler, Reliving Golgotha: The Passion Play of Iztapalapa (pages 46-47)
- The charge that those who played Jesus in these representations were treated badly by the plays' Jews and Romans left one commissioner cold: in his view, these miserables were beaten much less severely by the players than they were by their actual lords or curacas.
- 1838, The Foreign Quarterly Review (volume 21, page 181)
- (informal, in the plural, with definite article) A state of misery or melancholy.
- 1984, Barbara Wernecke Durkin, Oh, You Dundalk Girls, Can't You Dance the Polka? (page 10)
- By 3:00 P.M. both DeeDee and Sandra's pants were thoroughly soaked, and this unhappy circumstance gave DeeDee a bad case of the miserables.
- 1984, Barbara Wernecke Durkin, Oh, You Dundalk Girls, Can't You Dance the Polka? (page 10)
Anagrams
- marbelise, marbleise
Catalan
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin miser?bilis.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central) IPA(key): /mi.z???a.bl?/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /mi.ze??a.ble/
Adjective
miserable (masculine and feminine plural miserables)
- miserable
Spanish
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin miser?bilis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mise??able/, [mi.se??a.??le]
Adjective
miserable (plural miserables)
- miserable
- poor
- greedy, stingy
Related terms
- mísero
- miseria
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uncomfortable
English
Etymology
un- +? comfortable
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?n?k?mf.t?.b?l/, /?n?k?m.f?.t?.b?l/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?n?k?m.f?.t?.b?l/, /?n?k?mf.t?.b?l/
Adjective
uncomfortable (comparative more uncomfortable, superlative most uncomfortable)
- Not comfortable; causing discomfort.
- Experiencing discomfort.
- Uneasy or anxious.
- Put off or disgusted.
Usage notes
Although the word uncomfortable looks (etymonically) like one of its senses could be synonymous with inconsolable, it does not have that sense; the absence of that sense is simply a lexical gap. In parallel, the same is true of comfortable and consolable, as well as comfortability and consolability.
Synonyms
- ill at ease
Antonyms
- comfortable
- ergonomic
Derived terms
- uncomfortableness
- uncomfortably
Translations
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