· very unhappy; full of misery; "he felt depressed and miserable"; "a message of hope for suffering humanity"; "wretched prisoners huddled in stinking cages"

Synonym(s): suffering, wretched

· deserving or inciting pity; "a hapless victim"; "miserable victims of war"; "the shabby room struck her as extraordinarily pathetic"- Galsworthy; "piteous appeals for help"; "pitiable homeless children"; "a pitiful fate"; "Oh, you poor thing"; "his poor distorted limbs"; "a wretched life"

Synonym(s): hapless, misfortunate, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor, wretched

· of the most contemptible kind; "abject cowardice"; "a low stunt to pull"; "a low-down sneak"; "his miserable treatment of his family"; "You miserable skunk!"; "a scummy rabble"; "a scurvy trick"

Synonym(s): abject, low, low-down, scummy, scurvy

· of very poor quality or condition; "deplorable housing conditions in the inner city"; "woeful treatment of the accused"; "woeful errors of judgment"

Synonym(s): deplorable, execrable, woeful, wretched

· characterized by physical misery; "a wet miserable weekend"; "spent a wretched night on the floor"

Synonym(s): wretched

· contemptibly small in amount; "a measly tip"; "the company donated a miserable $100 for flood relief"; "a paltry wage"; "almost depleted his miserable store of dried beans"

Synonym(s): measly, paltry