Usually means: Experiencing extreme discomfort or unhappiness.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word miserable:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. miserable: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. miserable: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. miserable: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. miserable: Collins English Dictionary
  5. miserable: Vocabulary.com
  6. Miserable, miserable: Wordnik
  7. miserable: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. miserable: Wiktionary
  9. miserable: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. miserable: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. miserable: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Miserable, miserable: Dictionary.com
  13. miserable: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. miserable: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Miserable (song): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Miserable: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. miserable: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. miserable: Rhymezone
  19. miserable: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. miserable: Free Dictionary
  21. miserable: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. miserable: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  23. miserable: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. miserable: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. miserable: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. miserable: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. miserable: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. miserable: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. miserable: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See miserableness as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  In a state of misery: very sad, ill, or poor.
adjective:  Very bad (at something); unskilled, incompetent; hopeless.
adjective:  Of the weather, extremely unpleasant due to being cold, wet, overcast, etc.
adjective:  Wretched; worthless; mean; contemptible.
adjective:  (obsolete) Causing unhappiness or misery.
adjective:  (obsolete) Avaricious; niggardly; miserly.
noun:  A miserable person; a wretch.
noun:  (informal, in the plural, with definite article) A state of misery or melancholy.

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