miserably
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mis·er·a·ble
(mĭz′ər-ə-bəl, mĭz′rə-)adj.
1. Very uncomfortable or unhappy; wretched.
2. Causing or accompanied by great discomfort or distress: a miserable climate.
3. Mean or shameful; contemptible: a miserable trick.
4. Wretchedly inadequate: lived in a miserable shack; fed the prisoners miserable rations.
5. Of poor quality; inferior: miserable handicraft.
[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin miserābilis, pitiable, from miserārī, to pity, from miser, wretched.]
mis′er·a·ble n.
mis′er·a·ble·ness n.
mis′er·a·bly adv.
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بصورةٍ بائِسَه
uboze
elendigtmiserabelt
gyatrán
ömurlega
kötü/berbat şekilde
miserably
[ˈmɪzərəblɪ] ADV1. (= unhappily) [say, think, nod] → tristemente, con desconsuelo
2. (= depressingly) [furnished, decorated] → miserablemente, míseramente
the supplies were miserably inadequate → los suministros eran miserablemente escasos
it was miserably cold → hacía un frío deprimente
our wages are miserably low → nos pagan una miseria
the supplies were miserably inadequate → los suministros eran miserablemente escasos
it was miserably cold → hacía un frío deprimente
our wages are miserably low → nos pagan una miseria
3. (= completely) to fail miserably → fracasar rotundamente
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
miserably
[ˈmɪzərəbli] adv [smile, answer, say] → tristement
[live, pay] → misérablement
[fail] → lamentablement
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
miserably
adv
(= wretchedly, distressingly) hurt, ache, rain → grässlich, fürchterlich; live, die → elend, jämmerlich; poor → erbärmlich; miserably unhappy → todunglücklich (inf); it was miserably cold → es war erbärmlich kalt
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
miserable
(ˈmizərəbl) adjective1. very unhappy; She's been miserable since he went away.
2. very poor in quantity or quality. The house was in a miserable condition.
ˈmiserably adverbKernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.