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adjective very unhappy; full of misery
adjective deserving or inciting pity; ; ; - Galsworthy
adjective of the most contemptible kind
originBorrowed from Middle French miserable, from Old French, from Latin miserabilis, equivalent to miser + -able.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0