Dictionary entry
Miserably
Pronunciation: /ˈmɪzrəbli/
Pronunciation
/ˈmɪzrəbli/
Myanmar Meaning
အလွန် စိတ်ပျက်စရာ ကောင်းသော။
Definition
miserable /'mÇzrǝbl / adj ၁။ (က) မသက္မသာ ျဖစ္ေသာ။ စိတ္မခ်မ္းေျမ႕ေသာ။ 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) မသက္မသာ ျဖစ္ေစေသာ။ စိတ္မခ်မ္းေျမ႕ေစေသာ။ miserable (eg cold and wet) weather ❍ live in miserable conditions ❍ I've had a miserable afternoon. ၂။ အလြန္ညံ့ေသာ။ အလြန္ နည္းေသာ။ How can I keep a family on such a miserable wage? ၃။ စိတ္ပ်က္စရာ ေကာင္းေသာ (သူ)။ စိတ္တိုတတ္ေသာ (သူ)။ What a miserable old devil Scrooge was! ၄။ အလြန္ စိတ္ပ်က္စရာ ေကာင္းေသာ။ The plan was a miserable failure. ❏ miserably /-ǝbli / adv : die miserably ❍ a miserably cold day ❍ be miserably poor ❍ The plan failed miserably.
Examples
- He looked cold and miserable in the rain.
- Their evening together had been a miserable failure.
- The weather was miserable.
- Why should I argue with miserable people like him.
- All I had left was a miserable 50 pence.