miserable

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A miserable person; a wretch.
    — 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.
  2. A state of misery or melancholy. in-plural,informal,with-definite-article
    — 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.
形容词 adj.
  1. 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.
  2. Very bad (at something); unskilled, incompetent; hopeless.
    — He's good at some sports, like tennis, but he's just miserable at football.
  3. Of the weather, extremely unpleasant due to being cold, wet, overcast, etc.
  4. Wretched; worthless; mean; contemptible.
    — a miserable sinner
  5. Causing unhappiness or misery. obsolete
    — For what's more miserable than discontent?
  6. Avaricious; niggardly; miserly. obsolete
    — the liberal-hearted man is by the opinion of the prodigal miserable, and by the judgment of the miserable lavish
  7. Negative minded, unpleasant to be around.

词形变化

more miserable comparative most miserable superlative miserables plural

词汇关系

衍生词
immiseration immiserization mimsy miserabilism miserabilist miserability miserable as a wet hen miserableness miserablism miserablist miserably unmiserable
相关词
miser misery

词源

词源 1
Borrowed from Middle French miserable, from Old French, from Latin miserabilis, equivalent to miser + -able.
词源 2
Borrowed from Middle French miserable, from Old French, from Latin miserabilis, equivalent to miser + -able.
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