Vocabulary
Miserable
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
(of a person) wretchedly unhappy or uncomfortable.
Urdu meaning
غالب آنا فتح پانا
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- Their cells are among the most overcrowded and miserable in our jails; then, there is the psychological toll of waiting for one`s death.
- As one of the respondents on X put it, the image of crying women is etched in our minds because women, by and large, still live a subservient and miserable existence pressed into the service of others.
- This state of repression is borne out by the miserable national indices of Pakistan, which are those of a failing state.
- These beggars present themselves in miserable condition, wearing torn and ragged clothes, asking passers-by for alms.
- In other cases, just the daily oppression ofmen cracking lewd jokes, married bosses making passes, male colleagues leaving women out of meetings, and other micro aggressions generally make women`s lives miserable.
Synonyms
unhappy, sad, sorrowful, dejected, depressed, downcast, downhearted, down,
Antonyms
happy, contented
Curator example
“their happiness made Anne feel even more miserable”
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Urdu equivalents where we have them, word relations, and—when generated—real lines from the editorial archive
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