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{
"term": "miserable",
"partOfSpeech": "adjective",
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "b2",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "very unhappy or uncomfortable",
"cefr": "b2",
"examples": [
{
"text": "We were cold, wet and thoroughly miserable."
},
{
"text": "Don't look so miserable!"
},
{
"text": "She knows how to **make life miserable** for her employees."
},
{
"text": "We got home feeling tired and miserable."
},
{
"text": "feeling utterly miserable about his exams"
},
{
"text": "The miners came past with their tired and miserable faces."
}
],
"topics": ["Feelings"],
"collocations": {
"verbs": ["be", "feel", "look"],
"adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"],
"preposition": ["about"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "making you feel very unhappy or uncomfortable",
"cefr": "b2",
"examples": [
{
"text": "miserable housing conditions"
},
{
"text": "I spent a miserable weekend alone at home."
},
{
"text": "What a miserable day! *(= cold and wet)*"
},
{
"text": "The play was **a miserable failure**."
},
{
"text": "These people live in miserable conditions."
}
],
"synonyms": "depressing",
"topics": ["Weather"],
"collocations": {
"verbs": ["be", "feel", "look"],
"adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"],
"preposition": ["about"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "always unhappy, unfriendly and in a bad mood",
"labels": "(disapproving)",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "He was a miserable old devil."
}
],
"synonyms": "grumpy",
"topics": ["Personal qualities"]
},
{
"senseNumber": 4,
"definition": "too small in quantity",
"examples": [
{
"text": "How can anyone live on such a miserable wage?"
}
],
"synonyms": "paltry"
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈmɪzrəbl/",
"audio": "mi/miserable/miserable__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈmɪzrəbl/",
"audio": "mi/miserable/miserable__us_1_rr.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "late Middle English: from French misérable, from Latin miserabilis ‘pitiable’, from miserari ‘to pity’, from miser ‘wretched’."
}