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miserable

/ˈmɪz(ə)rəb(ə)l/

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American sound/ˈmɪz(ə)rəb(ə)l/

miserable

Syllables: 4 syllables
Stress: 1st syllable stress
Vowel: Schwa vowel
Ending: Final e often stays silent

mi - se - rab - le -> miserable

Myanmar meaning

(adj) စိတ်သောကရောက်သော။ သနားစရာကောင်းသော။ စက်ဆုပ်ရွံရှာဖွယ်ကောင်းသော (အပြုအမူ)။ လူမလေးစားရလောက်အောင် နည်းပါးသော။

Full entry

miserable /'mÇzrǝbl / adj

၁။ (က) မသက်မသာ ဖြစ်သော။ စိတ်မချမ်းမြေ့သော။ We were cold, wet and thoroughly miserable. ❍ He makes her life miserable (eg by being unkind or cruel to her). ❍ Don't look so miserable! (ခ) မသက်မသာ ဖြစ်စေသော။ စိတ်မချမ်းမြေ့စေသော။ miserable (eg cold and wet) weather ❍ live in miserable conditions ❍ I've had a miserable afternoon.
၂။ အလွန်ညံ့သော။ အလွန် နည်းသော။ How can I keep a family on such a miserable wage?
၃။ စိတ်ပျက်စရာ ကောင်းသော (သူ)။ စိတ်တိုတတ်သော (သူ)။ What a miserable old devil Scrooge was!
၄။ အလွန် စိတ်ပျက်စရာ ကောင်းသော။
The plan was a miserable failure.
❏ miserably /-ǝbli / adv : die miserably ❍ a miserably cold day ❍ be miserably poor ❍ The plan failed miserably.

Synonyms

unhappy, sad, fed-up, depressed, down, despondent, dejected, wretched, glum, dismal, low, abject, afflicted, agonized, ailing, anguished, bad, brokenhearted, cheerless, contemptible, crestfallen, deplorable, depressing, derisory, desolate, despairing, despicable, destitute, destroyed, detestable, disconsolate, discontented, disgraceful, distressed, doleful, dolorous, down in the mouth, downcast, dreary, dull, fed up, forlorn, gloomy, godforsaken, gray, heartbroken, hopeless, hurt, hurting, ill, impoverished, in pain, inadequate, indigent, inferior, injured, lamentable, meager, mean, measly, melancholy, miserly, mournful, needy, on a downer, overcast, pained, paltry, pathetic, penniless, piddling, piteous, pitiable, poor, poverty-stricken, racked, rueful, ruthful, scanty, scurvy, shabby, shameful, sick, sickly, sordid, sorrowful, sorry, squalid, strained, suffering, tormented, tortured, tragic, troubled, vile, woebegone, woeful, worthless, wounded

Antonyms

adequate, advantageous, bright, cheerful, cheery, elated, fortunate, generous, glad, good, great, happy, joyful, lucky, merry, nice, reputable, rich, sufficient, wealthy

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