miserable

adj

1. forlorn, woeful or woful, woebegone, Archaic. woesome, Obs. baleful, heartsick, downhearted, broken-hearted, heartbroken, crushed, broken, desolate, despairing; worried, anxious, afflicted, stricken, heavy-laden; down, disconsolate, dejected, depressed, despondent, melancholic, gloomy, dismal, dreary, Literary. drear, lugubrious, funereal; somber, glum, low-spirited, disheartened, discouraged, Inf. broken-up, Inf. cut-up, Sl. bummed-out or bummed; sad, unhappy, infelicitous, sorrowful, doleful, dolorous, dolorific, grieved, mournful, lachrymose, lachrymal, lachrymatory, comfortless, joyless, cheerless, inconsolable.

2. destitute, indigent, poverty-stricken, abject, needy, in need, wanting, lacking, in want, beggared, beggarly; poor, underprivileged, disadvantaged, deprived, bereft, ill-off, badly or poorly off, Inf. hard-up; impoverished, pauperized, ruined, failed, down and out, down at the heels, out at the elbows, Sl. busted, Sl. broke.

3. contemptible, beneath contempt, worthy of contempt, despicable, detestable, base, base-spirited, mean, mean-spirited, low, vile, paltry, Archaic. caitiff.

4. wretched, sorry, pitiful, pitiable, piteous, Inf. lousy, Sl. rotten; adverse, difficult, troublesome, hard, trying; star-crossed, ill-starred, evil-starred, unlucky, luckless, unfortunate, hapless; tragic, ruinous, fatal, dire, black, grievous, joyless, grim, stark, bleak; abject, sordid, slummy, slum-like.

5. pitiful, pathetic, pathetical; sad, distressing, plaintive; lamentable, regrettable, deplorable, rueful; touching, moving, affecting, affective, affectional, melting, heartrending, heart-moving, heart-breaking.