miserable

adjective

1)

I'm too miserable to eat

Syn:

unhappy, sad, sorrowful, dejected, depressed, downcast, downhearted, down, despondent, disconsolate, wretched, glum, gloomy, dismal, melancholy, woebegone, doleful, forlorn, heartbroken; informal blue, down in/at the mouth, down in the dumps

Ant:

happy, contented

2)

their miserable surroundings

Syn:

dreary, dismal, gloomy, drab, wretched, depressing, grim, cheerless, bleak, desolate; poor, shabby, squalid, seedy, dilapidated; informal flea-bitten

Ant:

luxurious

3)

miserable weather

Syn:

unpleasant, disagreeable, depressing; wet, rainy, stormy; informal rotten

Ant:

glorious, lovely

4)

a miserable old grouch

Syn:

grumpy, sullen, gloomy, bad-tempered, ill-tempered, ill-natured, dour, surly, sour, glum, moody, unsociable, saturnine, lugubrious, irritable, churlish, cantankerous, crotchety, cross, crabby, cranky, grouchy, testy, peevish, crusty, waspish

Ant:

cheerful, good-natured

5)

miserable wages

Syn:

inadequate, meager, scanty, paltry, small, poor, pitiful, niggardly; informal measly, stingy, pathetic; formal exiguous

Ant:

generous, adequate

6)

all that fuss about a few miserable dollars

Syn:

wretched, confounded; informal blithering, blessed, damned, blasted; dated accursed