miserable

Adjective

• contemptibly small in amount
  • a measly tip
    
  • the company donated a miserable $100 for flood relief
    
  • a paltry wage
    
  • almost depleted his miserable store of dried beans
    

• characterized by physical misery
  • a wet miserable weekend
    
  • spent a wretched night on the floor
    

• of very poor quality or condition
  • deplorable housing conditions in the inner city
    
  • woeful treatment of the accused
    
  • woeful errors of judgment
    

• of the most contemptible kind
  • abject cowardice
    
  • a low stunt to pull
    
  • a low-down sneak
    
  • his miserable treatment of his family
    
  • You miserable skunk!
    
  • a scummy rabble
    
  • a scurvy trick
    

• deserving or inciting pity
  • a hapless victim
    
  • miserable victims of war
    
  • the shabby room struck her as extraordinarily pathetic- Galsworthy
    
  • piteous appeals for help
    
  • pitiable homeless children
    
  • a pitiful fate
    
  • Oh, you poor thing
    
  • his poor distorted limbs
    
  • a wretched life
    

• very unhappy; full of misery
  • he felt depressed and miserable
    
  • a message of hope for suffering humanity
    
  • wretched prisoners huddled in stinking cages
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  measly , paltry , wretched , deplorable , execrable , woeful , abject , low , low-down , scummy , scurvy , hapless , misfortunate , pathetic , piteous , pitiable , pitiful , poor , suffering