miserable

miserable is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 4 senses. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.

Definitions

  1. 1.Causing unhappiness or misery. What 's more miserable than discontent Shak.
  2. 2.Worthless; mean; despicable; as, a miserable fellow; a miserable dinner. Miserable comforters are ye all. Job xvi.
  3. 3.4. Avaricious; niggardly; miserly. [Obs.] Hooker.
  4. 4.A miserable person. [Obs.] Sterne.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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