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say it: MIZ-ur-uh-buhl
miserable is an adjective meaning "very unhappy; full of misery". It carries 6 recorded senses.
deserving or inciting pity
“a hapless victim”
“miserable victims of war”
“the shabby room struck her as extraordinarily pathetic”
“piteous appeals for help”
“pitiable homeless children”
“a pitiful fate”
“Oh, you poor thing”
“his poor distorted limbs”
“a wretched life”
of very poor quality or condition
“deplorable housing conditions in the inner city”
“woeful treatment of the accused”
“woeful errors of judgment”
characterized by physical misery
“a wet miserable weekend”
“spent a wretched night on the floor”
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for miserable come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.