| query | If you describe the weather as m________, you mean that it makes you feel depressed, because it is raining or dull .If you describe the weather as miserable, you mean that it makes you feel depressed, because it is raining or dull . It was a grey, wet, miserable day. It was very cold, damp and miserable. |
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| word | miserable |
| full-definition | adjective If you are miserable, you are very unhappy. I took a series of badly paid secretarial jobs which made me really miserable. She went to bed, miserable and depressed. He looked miserably down at his plate. If you describe a place or situation as miserable, you mean that it makes you feel unhappy or depressed. There was nothing at all in this miserable place to distract him. If you describe the weather as miserable, you mean that it makes you feel depressed, because it is raining or dull . It was a grey, wet, miserable day. It was very cold, damp and miserable. If you describe someone as miserable, you mean that you do not like them because they are bad-tempered or unfriendly . He always was a miserable man. He never spoke to me nor anybody else. You can describe a quantity or quality as miserable when you think that it is much smaller or worse than it ought to be. Our speed over the ground was a miserable 2.2 knots. ...the miserably inadequate supply of books now provided for schools. A miserable failure is a very great one. The film was a miserable commercial failure both in Italy and in the United States. Some manage it. Some fail miserably. |
| inflections | miserablymiserablymiserably |
| cefr-level | B2 |
Tags: oxford5k::cefr-level:b2
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