Miserable

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Sorrowful

Synonyms Unhappy, sorrowful, depressed, downhearted, despondent, disconsolate, desolate, wretched, gloomy, blue, melancholic, mournful, woebegone, forlorn, broken-hearted, inconsolable, grief-stricken, down in the dumps, sad, dejected, downcast, down, despairing, out of sorts, bowed down, glum, dismal, melancholy, low-spirited, woeful, doleful, crestfallen, heartbroken, luckless, and down in the mouth.

Sombre

Synonyms Dreary, dark, drab, wretched, grim, godforsaken, desolate, uninviting, disheartening, hopeless, pathetic, distressing, mean, shabby, filthy, sordid, dilapidated, disagreeable, uncomfortable, rainy, rotten, dismal, gloomy, sombre, depressing, cheerless, bleak, joyless, discouraging, unpromising, dire, tragic, grievous, poor, squalid, foul, seedy, unpleasant, displeasing, wet, and stormy.

Sulky

Synonyms Grumpy, sulky, bad-tempered, in a bad mood, surly, glum, unsmiling, uncommunicative, unresponsive, scowling, ill-humoured, sober, pessimistic, dismal, churlish, crotchety, crabbed, grouchy, snappish, crusty, mardy, sullen, gloomy, ill-tempered, dour, sour, moody, humourless, taciturn, unsociable, glowering, sombre, saturnine, lugubrious, irritable, cantankerous, cross, crabby, testy, peevish, waspish, and mumpish.

Wretched

Synonyms Wretched, despicable, blithering, footling, damned, accursed, contemptible, confounded, flaming, infernal, and cursed.

Scant

Synonyms Inadequate, scanty, paltry, restricted, deficient, insubstantial, short, lean, slight, poor, pitiful, beggarly, stingy, pathetic, exiguous, meagre, scant, limited, insufficient, negligible, skimpy, little, small, slender, lamentable, puny, measly, lousy, and piddling.

Example Sentences

She felt miserable during the winter.

The weather was cold and miserable.

He had a miserable day yesterday.

Their arguments made her feel miserable.