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{
"derived": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "immiseration"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "immiserization"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "miserabilism"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "miserabilist"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "miserable as a wet hen"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "miserablism"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "miserablist"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "frm",
"3": "miserable"
},
"expansion": "Borrowed from Middle French miserable",
"name": "bor+"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "fro",
"3": "-"
},
"expansion": "Old French",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "la",
"3": "miserabilis"
},
"expansion": "Latin miserabilis",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "miser",
"3": "able"
},
"expansion": "miser + -able",
"name": "suf"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Borrowed from Middle French miserable, from Old French, from Latin miserabilis, equivalent to miser + -able.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "more miserable",
"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
{
"form": "most miserable",
"tags": [
"superlative"
]
}
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "more"
},
"expansion": "miserable (comparative more miserable, superlative most miserable)",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
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"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"related": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "miser"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "misery"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter I, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, →OCLC; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., […], [1933], →OCLC, page 0056:",
"text": "Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter VII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:",
"text": "With some of it on the south and more of it on the north of the great main thoroughfare that connects Aldgate and the East India Docks, St. Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1910, George Bernard Shaw, A Treatise on Parents and Children:",
"text": "The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation, because occupation means pre-occupation",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"In a state of misery: very sad, ill, or poor."
],
"id": "en-miserable-en-adj-LeCWFioT",
"links": [
[
"misery",
"misery"
],
[
"sad",
"sad"
],
[
"ill",
"ill"
],
[
"poor",
"poor"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "sad"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "87 0 0 1 11 1",
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "bāʔis",
"sense": "in a state of misery",
"word": "بَائِس"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 0 0 1 11 1",
"code": "ary",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "məskin",
"sense": "in a state of misery",
"tags": [
"Moroccan-Arabic",
"masculine"
],
"word": "مسْكين"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 0 0 1 11 1",
"code": "ary",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "məskina",
"sense": "in a state of misery",
"tags": [
"Moroccan-Arabic",
"feminine"
],
"word": "مسْكينة"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 0 0 1 11 1",
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "džbaxt",
"sense": "in a state of misery",
"word": "դժբախտ"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 0 0 1 11 1",
"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "in a state of misery",
"word": "acınacaqlı"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 0 0 1 11 1",
"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "in a state of misery",
"word": "miskin"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 0 0 1 11 1",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "okajan",
"sense": "in a state of misery",
"word": "окаян"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 0 0 1 11 1",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "zločest",
"sense": "in a state of misery",
"word": "злочест"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 0 0 1 11 1",
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "in a state of misery",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "trist"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 0 0 1 11 1",
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "in a state of misery",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "desgraciat"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 0 0 1 11 1",
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "in a state of misery",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "miserable"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 0 0 1 11 1",
"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"sense": "in a state of misery",
"word": "悲慘"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 0 0 1 11 1",
"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"roman": "bei¹ caam²",
"sense": "in a state of misery",
"word": "悲惨"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 0 0 1 11 1",
"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"sense": "in a state of misery",
"word": "慘"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 0 0 1 11 1",
"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"roman": "caam²",
"sense": "in a state of misery",
"word": "惨"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 0 0 1 11 1",
"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"sense": "in a state of misery",
"word": "淒慘"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 0 0 1 11 1",
"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"roman": "cai¹ caam²",
"sense": "in a state of misery",
"word": "凄惨"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 0 0 1 11 1",
"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"roman": "cai¹ caam²",
"sense": "in a state of misery",
"word": "悽慘"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 0 0 1 11 1",
"code": "hak",
"lang": "Hakka Chinese",
"sense": "in a state of misery",
"word": "悲慘"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 0 0 1 11 1",
"code": "hak",
"lang": "Hakka Chinese",
"roman": "pî-chhám",
"sense": "in a state of misery",
"word": "悲惨"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 0 0 1 11 1",
"code": "hak",
"lang": "Hakka Chinese",
"sense": "in a state of misery",
"word": "慘"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 0 0 1 11 1",
"code": "hak",
"lang": "Hakka Chinese",
"roman": "chhám",
"sense": "in a state of misery",
"word": "惨"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 0 0 1 11 1",
"code": "hak",
"lang": "Hakka Chinese",
"sense": "in a state of misery",
"word": "淒慘"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 0 0 1 11 1",
"code": "hak",
"lang": "Hakka Chinese",
"sense": "in a state of misery",
"word": "凄惨"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 0 0 1 11 1",
"code": "hak",
"lang": "Hakka Chinese",
"sense": "in a state of misery",
"word": "悽慘"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 0 0 1 11 1",
"code": "hak",
"lang": "Hakka Chinese",
"roman": "chhî-chhám",
"sense": "in a state of misery",
"word": "凄惨"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 0 0 1 11 1",
"code": "nan-hbl",
"lang": "Chinese",
"sense": "in a state of misery",
"tags": [
"Hokkien"
],
"word": "悲慘"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 0 0 1 11 1",
"code": "nan-hbl",
"lang": "Chinese",
"roman": "zh-min-nan",
"sense": "in a state of misery",
"tags": [
"Hokkien"
],
"word": "悲惨"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 0 0 1 11 1",
"code": "nan-hbl",
"lang": "Chinese",
"sense": "in a state of misery",
"tags": [
"Hokkien"
],
"word": "淒慘"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 0 0 1 11 1",
"code": "nan-hbl",
"lang": "Chinese",
"sense": "in a state of misery",
"tags": [
"Hokkien"
],
"word": "凄惨"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 0 0 1 11 1",
"code": "nan-hbl",
"lang": "Chinese",
"sense": "in a state of misery",
"tags": [
"Hokkien"
],
"word": "悽慘"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 0 0 1 11 1",
"code": "nan-hbl",
"lang": "Chinese",
"roman": "zh-min-nan",
"sense": "in a state of misery",
"tags": [
"Hokkien"
],
"word": "凄惨"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 0 0 1 11 1",
"code": "nan-hbl",
"lang": "Chinese",
"sense": "in a state of misery",
"tags": [
"Hokkien"
],
"word": "慘"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 0 0 1 11 1",
"code": "nan-hbl",
"lang": "Chinese",
"roman": "chhám",
"sense": "in a state of misery",
"tags": [
"Hokkien"
],
"word": "惨"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 0 0 1 11 1",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "in a state of misery",
"word": "悲慘"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 0 0 1 11 1",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "bēicǎn",
"sense": "in a state of misery",
"word": "悲惨"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 0 0 1 11 1",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "in a state of misery",
"word": "慘"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 0 0 1 11 1",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "cǎn",
"sense": "in a state of misery",
"word": "惨"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 0 0 1 11 1",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "in a state of misery",
"word": "淒慘"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 0 0 1 11 1",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "qīcǎn",
"sense": "in a state of misery",
"word": "凄惨"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 0 0 1 11 1",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "qīcǎn",
"sense": "in a state of misery",
"word": "悽慘"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 0 0 1 11 1",
"code": "kw",
"lang": "Cornish",
"sense": "in a state of misery",
"word": "moredhek"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 0 0 1 11 1",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "in a state of misery",
"word": "nešťastný"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 0 0 1 11 1",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "in a state of misery",
"word": "bědný"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 0 0 1 11 1",
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "in a state of misery",
"word": "elendig"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 0 0 1 11 1",
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "in a state of misery",
"word": "mizera"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 0 0 1 11 1",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "in a state of misery",
"word": "kurja"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 0 0 1 11 1",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "in a state of misery",
"word": "misérable"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 0 0 1 11 1",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "in a state of misery",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "miserábel"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 0 0 1 11 1",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "in a state of misery",
"word": "elend"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 0 0 1 11 1",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "in a state of misery",
"word": "erbärmlich"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 0 0 1 11 1",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "in a state of misery",
"word": "jämmerlich"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 0 0 1 11 1",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "in a state of misery",
"word": "miserabel"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 0 0 1 11 1",
"code": "got",
"lang": "Gothic",
"roman": "wainahs",
"sense": "in a state of misery",
"word": "𐍅𐌰𐌹𐌽𐌰𐌷𐍃"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 0 0 1 11 1",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "áthlios",
"sense": "in a state of misery",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "άθλιος"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 0 0 1 11 1",
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "áthlios",
"sense": "in a state of misery",
"word": "ἄθλιος"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 0 0 1 11 1",
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "méleos",
"sense": "in a state of misery",
"word": "μέλεος"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 0 0 1 11 1",
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "dústēnos",
"sense": "in a state of misery",
"tags": [
"Epic"
],
"word": "δύστηνος"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 0 0 1 11 1",
"code": "gu",
"lang": "Gujarati",
"roman": "duḥkhī",
"sense": "in a state of misery",
"word": "દુઃખી"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 0 0 1 11 1",
"code": "gu",
"lang": "Gujarati",
"roman": "kaṅgāḷ",
"sense": "in a state of misery",
"word": "કંગાળ"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 0 0 1 11 1",
"code": "ht",
"lang": "Haitian Creole",
"sense": "in a state of misery",
"word": "mizerab"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 0 0 1 11 1",
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "umlál",
"sense": "in a state of misery",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "אֻמְלָל"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 0 0 1 11 1",
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "miskén",
"sense": "in a state of misery",
"word": "מסכן"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 0 0 1 11 1",
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "duḥkhī",
"sense": "in a state of misery",
"word": "दुःखी"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 0 0 1 11 1",
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "udās",
"sense": "in a state of misery",
"word": "उदास"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 0 0 1 11 1",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "in a state of misery",
"word": "nyomorult"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 0 0 1 11 1",
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "in a state of misery",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ömurlegur"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 0 0 1 11 1",
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "in a state of misery",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ömurleg"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 0 0 1 11 1",
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "in a state of misery",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "ömurlegt"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 0 0 1 11 1",
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "in a state of misery",
"word": "aimléiseach"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 0 0 1 11 1",
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "in a state of misery",
"word": "ainnis"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 0 0 1 11 1",
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "in a state of misery",
"word": "anóiteach"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 0 0 1 11 1",
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "in a state of misery",
"word": "galair"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 0 0 1 11 1",
"alt": "みじめな",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "mijime na",
"sense": "in a state of misery",
"word": "惨めな"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 0 0 1 11 1",
"alt": "ひさんな",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "hisan na",
"sense": "in a state of misery",
"word": "悲惨な"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 0 0 1 11 1",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "bulhaenghan sanghwang",
"sense": "in a state of misery",
"word": "불행한 상황"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 0 0 1 11 1",
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "in a state of misery",
"word": "miser"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 0 0 1 11 1",
"code": "mnc",
"lang": "Manchu",
"roman": "gosihon",
"sense": "in a state of misery",
"word": "ᡤᠣᠰᡳᡥᠣᠨ"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 0 0 1 11 1",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "in a state of misery",
"word": "tiwhatiwha"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 0 0 1 11 1",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "in a state of misery",
"word": "kōtonga"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 0 0 1 11 1",
"code": "enm",
"lang": "Middle English",
"sense": "in a state of misery",
"word": "myschevous"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 0 0 1 11 1",
"code": "nrf",
"lang": "Norman",
"sense": "in a state of misery",
"tags": [
"Jersey"
],
"word": "mînséthabl'ye"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 0 0 1 11 1",
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "in a state of misery",
"word": "kummerlig"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 0 0 1 11 1",
"code": "ang",
"lang": "Old English",
"sense": "in a state of misery",
"word": "earm"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 0 0 1 11 1",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "in a state of misery",
"word": "nędzny"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 0 0 1 11 1",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "in a state of misery",
"word": "nieszczęśliwy"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 0 0 1 11 1",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "in a state of misery",
"word": "miserável"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 0 0 1 11 1",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "in a state of misery",
"word": "mizerabil"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 0 0 1 11 1",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "in a state of misery",
"word": "nenorocit"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 0 0 1 11 1",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "in a state of misery",
"word": "mizer"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 0 0 1 11 1",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "nesčástnyj",
"sense": "in a state of misery",
"word": "несча́стный"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 0 0 1 11 1",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "bédnyj",
"sense": "in a state of misery",
"word": "бе́дный"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 0 0 1 11 1",
"code": "sa",
"lang": "Sanskrit",
"roman": "dīna",
"sense": "in a state of misery",
"word": "दीन"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 0 0 1 11 1",
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "in a state of misery",
"word": "brònach"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 0 0 1 11 1",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "in a state of misery",
"word": "miserable"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 0 0 1 11 1",
"code": "txb",
"lang": "Tocharian B",
"sense": "in a state of misery",
"word": "anās"
},
{
"_dis1": "87 0 0 1 11 1",
"code": "tyz",
"lang": "Tày",
"sense": "in a state of misery",
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"lang": "Spanish",
"lang_code": "es",
"pos": "adj",
"related": [
{
"word": "miseria"
},
{
"word": "mísero"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"miserable"
],
"links": [
[
"miserable",
"miserable#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"poor"
],
"links": [
[
"poor",
"poor"
]
],
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"greedy, stingy"
],
"links": [
[
"greedy",
"greedy"
],
[
"stingy",
"stingy"
]
],
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/miseˈɾable/"
},
{
"ipa": "[mi.seˈɾa.β̞le]"
},
{
"rhymes": "-able"
}
],
"word": "miserable"
}
Download raw JSONL data for miserable meaning in All languages combined (29.3kB)
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/2013",
"msg": "more than one value in \"roman\": pi-chhám vs. zh-min-nan",
"path": [
"miserable"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "adjective",
"title": "miserable",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/2013",
"msg": "more than one value in \"roman\": chhi-chhám vs. zh-min-nan",
"path": [
"miserable"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "adjective",
"title": "miserable",
"trace": ""
}
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