Miserable
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.