Synonyms of the word

miserable

• adj. In a state of misery: very sad, ill, or poor.
• adj. Very bad (at something); unskilled, incompetent.
• adj. Wretched; worthless; mean.
• adj. (obsolete) Causing unhappiness or misery.
• adj. (obsolete) Avaricious; niggardly; miserly.
• n. A miserable person; a wretch.

abject

• adj. (obsolete) Rejected; cast aside.
• adj. Sunk to or existing in a low condition, state, or position.
• adj. Cast down in spirit or hope; degraded; servile; grovelling; despicable; lacking courage; offered in a…
• adj. Showing utter hopelessness, helplessness; showing resignation; wretched.
• n. A person in the lowest and most despicable condition; a castaway; outcast.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To cast off or out; to reject.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To cast down; hence, to abase; to degrade; to lower; to debase.

contemptible

• adj. deserving contempt.

deplorable

• adj. Deserving strong condemnation; shockingly bad, wretched.
• adj. Lamentable, to be felt sorrow for, worthy of compassion.
• n. A person or thing that is to be deplored.

execrable

• adj. Of the poorest quality.
• adj. Hateful.

hapless

• adj. Very unlucky; ill-fated.
• adj. Devoid of talent or skill.

inferior

• adj. of lower quality.
• adj. of lower rank.
• adj. located below.
• adj. (botany) Situated below some other organ; said of a calyx when free from the ovary, and therefore below…
• adj. (botany) On the side of a flower which is next to the bract; anterior.
• adj. (astronomy) Nearer to the Sun than the Earth is.
• adj. (astronomy) Below the horizon.
• n. a person of lower stature to another.

low

• adj. In a position comparatively close to the ground.
• adj. Small in height.
• adj. Situated below the normal level, or the mean elevation.
• adj. Depressed, sad.
• adj. Not high in amount or quantity.
• adj. Of a pitch, suggesting a lower frequency.
• adj. Quiet; soft; not loud.
• adj. Despicable; lacking dignity; vulgar.
• adj. Lacking health or vitality; feeble; weak.
• adj. Being near the equator.
• adj. Humble in character or status.
• adj. Simple in complexity or development.
• adj. Designed for the slowest speed, as in low gear.
• adj. Articulated with a wide space between the flat tongue and the palette.
• adj. (phonetics) Made, as a vowel, with a low position of part of the tongue in relation to the palate.
• adj. (archaic) Not rich, highly seasoned, or nourishing; plain; simple.
• n. Something that is low; a low point.
• n. A depressed mood or situation.
• n. (meteorology) An area of low pressure; a depression.
• n. The lowest-speed gearing of a power-transmission system, especially of an automotive vehicle.
• n. (card games) The lowest trump, usually the deuce; the lowest trump dealt or drawn.
• n. (slang) (usually accompanied by "the") a cheap, cost-efficient, or advantageous payment or expense.
• adv. Close to the ground.
• adv. Of a pitch, at a lower frequency.
• adv. With a low voice or sound; not loudly; gently.
• adv. Under the usual price; at a moderate price; cheaply.
• adv. In a low mean condition; humbly; meanly.
• adv. In a time approaching our own.
• adv. (astronomy) In a path near the equator, so that the declination is small, or near the horizon, so that…
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To depress; to lower.
• v. obsolete simple past tense of laugh.
• v. (intransitive) To moo.
• n. (countable, Britain, Scotland, dialect) A flame; fire; blaze.
• v. (Britain, Scotland, dialect) To burn; to blaze.
• n. (archaic or obsolete) Barrow, mound, tumulus.
• n. (Scottish dialectal, archaic) A hill.

low-down

• adj. (idiomatic, slang, US) Of no value.

meager

• adj. Having little flesh; lean; thin.
• adj. Poor, deficient or inferior in amount, quality or extent; paltry; scanty; inadequate; unsatisfying.
• adj. (set theory) Of a set: such that, considered as a subset of a (usually larger) topological space, it is…
• adj. (mineralogy) Dry and harsh to the touch (e.g., as chalk).
• v. (transitive) To make lean.

meagerly

• adv. In a meager way; poorly; inadequately.

meagre

• n. Argyrosomus regius, an edible fish of the family Sciaenidae.
• adj. Having little flesh; lean; thin.
• adj. Deficient or inferior in amount, quality or extent; paltry; scanty; inadequate; unsatisfying.
• adj. (set theory) Of a set: such that, considered as a subset of a (usually larger) topological space, it is…
• adj. (mineralogy) Dry and harsh to the touch (e.g., as chalk).
• v. (transitive) To make lean.

measly

• adj. Particularly of pigs or pork: infected with larval tapeworms or trichinae (parasitic roundworms).
• adj. Of a person: infected with measles.
• adj. Small (especially contemptibly small) in amount; miserable, paltry, trifling.

misfortunate

• adj. Having suffered misfortune; pitiable.

paltry

• adj. trashy, trivial, of little value.
• adj. meager; worthless; pitiful; trifling.

pathetic

• adj. Arousing pity, sympathy, or compassion.
• adj. Arousing scornful pity or contempt, often due to miserable inadequacy.
• adj. (obsolete) Expressing or showing anger; passionate.

piteous

• adj. pitiful; provoking pity, compassion, or sympathy.
• adj. (obsolete) pious; devout.
• adj. (obsolete) compassionate; tender.
• adj. (obsolete) paltry; mean; pitiful.

pitiable

• adj. That deserves, evokes or can be given pity; pitiful.

pitiful

• adj. (now rare) Feeling pity; merciful.
• adj. So appalling or sad that one feels or should feel sorry for it; eliciting pity.
• adj. Very small (of an amount or number).

poor

• adj. With little or no possessions or money, particularly in relation to contemporaries who do have them.
• adj. Of low quality.
• adj. Used to express pity.
• adj. Deficient in a specified way.
• adj. Inadequate, insufficient.
• adj. Free from self-assertion; not proud or arrogant; meek.
• n. (with "the") Those who have little or no possessions or money, taken as a group.

scummy

• adj. Covered in scum.
• adj. (slang) sleazy, worthless, no good.

scurvy

• n. (medicine) A disease caused by insufficient intake of vitamin C leading to the formation of livid spots…
• adj. Covered or affected with scurf or scabs; scabby; scurfy; specifically, diseased with the scurvy.
• adj. Contemptible, despicable, low, disgustingly mean.

stingy

• adj. Stinging; able to sting.
• adj. Unwilling to spend, give, or share; ungenerous; mean.
• adj. Small, scant, meager, insufficient.

suffering

• adj. Experiencing pain.
• n. The condition of someone who suffers; a state of pain or distress.
• v. present participle of suffer.

uncomfortable

• adj. Not comfortable.
• adj. Experiencing discomfort.
• adj. Uneasy or anxious.
• adj. Put off or disgusted.

unfortunate

• adj. not favored by fortune.
• adj. marked or accompanied by or resulting in misfortune.
• n. An unlucky person.

unhappy

• adj. Not happy; sad.
• adj. Not satisfied; unsatisfied.
• adj. (chiefly dated) Not lucky; unlucky.
• adj. (chiefly dated) Not suitable; unsuitable.
• n. An individual who is not happy.

woeful

• adj. Full of woe; sorrowful; distressed with grief or calamity.
• adj. Bringing calamity, distress, or affliction.
• adj. wretched; paltry; poor.

wretched

• adj. Very miserable; sunk in, or accompanied by, deep affliction or distress, as from want, anxiety, or grief;…
• adj. Worthless; paltry; very poor or mean; miserable.
• adj. (obsolete) Hatefully contemptible; despicable; wicked.
• v. Misspelling of retched.