Word Meanings - MISERABLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In a miserable; unhappily; calamitously; wretchedly; meanly. They were miserably entertained. Sir P. Sidney. The fifth was miserably stabbed to death. South.

Related words: (words related to MISERABLY)

• SOUTHWEST
  The point of the compass equally from the south and the west; the southwest part or region.
• SOUTHSAY
  See SOOTHSAY
• SOUTHWESTERLY
  To ward or from the southwest; as, a southwesterly course; a southwesterly wind.
• DEATHLIKE
  1. Resembling death. A deathlike slumber, and a dead repose. Pope. 2. Deadly. "Deathlike dragons." Shak.
• SOUTHPAW
  A pitcher who pitches with the left hand.
• MEANLY
  In a mean manner; unworthily; basely; poorly; ungenerously. While the heaven-born child All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies. Milton. Would you meanly thus rely On power you know I must obey Prior. We can not bear to have others think meanly
• SOUTHERNLINESS
  Southerliness.
• MISERABLENESS
  The state or quality of being miserable.
• SOUTHREN
  Southern. "I am a Southren man." Chaucer.
• DEATHLINESS
  The quality of being deathly; deadliness. Southey.
• MISERABLE
  1. Very unhappy; wretched. What hopes delude thee, miserable man Dryden. 2. Causing unhappiness or misery. What 's more miserable than discontent Shak. 3. Worthless; mean; despicable; as, a miserable fellow; a miserable dinner. Miserable comforters
• DEATHWATCH
  A small beetle . By forcibly striking its head against woodwork it makes a ticking sound, which is a call of the sexes to each other, but has been imagined by superstitious people to presage death. A small wingless insect, of the family Psocidæ,
• ENTERTAINER
  One who entertains.
• SOUTHSAYER
  See SOOTHSAYER
• SOUTH; SOUTHERLY
  the old squaw; -- so called in imitation of its cry. Called also southerly, and southerland. See under Old.
• SOUTHING
  Distance of any heavenly body south of the equator; south declination; south latitude. (more info) 1. Tendency or progress southward; as, the southing of the sun. Emerson. 2. The time at which the moon, or other heavenly body, passes the meridian
• FIFTHLY
  In the fifth place; as the fifth in order.
• SOUTHERN
  A Southerner.
• SOUTHNESS
  A tendency in the end of a magnetic needle to point toward the south pole. Faraday.
• WRETCHEDLY
  In a wretched manner; miserably; despicable.
• DEATHLY
  Deadly; fatal; mortal; destructive.
• DEATHWARD
  Toward death.
• SOUTHEASTERN
  Of or pertaining to the southeast; southeasterly.