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Forsaken vs Miserable - What's the difference?

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Forsaken is a related term of miserable.


As adjectives the difference between forsaken and miserable

is that forsaken is deserted; abandoned while miserable is destitute, impoverished.

As a verb forsaken

is .

As a noun miserable is

wretch, scoundrel.

forsaken

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Deserted; abandoned
  • Helpless

    • Derived terms

    * forsakenly * forsakenness * God forsaken * God-forsaken * Godforsaken * god forsaken * god-forsaken * godforsaken

    Verb

    (head)
    • English irregular past participles

    miserable

    English

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • In a state of misery: very sad, ill, or poor.
  • *
  • *:Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.
  • *, chapter=7
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=With some of it on the south and more of it on the north of the great main thoroughfare that connects Aldgate and the East India Docks, St.?Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London.}}
  • * (George Bernard Shaw) (1856–1950)
  • *:The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure is occupation.
  • Very bad (at something); unskilled, incompetent.
  • :
  • Wretched; worthless; mean.
  • :
  • (lb) Causing unhappiness or misery.
  • *(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
  • *:What's more miserable than discontent?
  • (lb) Avaricious; niggardly; miserly.
  • :(Hooker)

    • Usage notes

    * Nouns to which "miserable" is often applied: life, condition, state, situation, day, time, creature, person, child, failure, place, world, season, year, week, experience, feeling, work, town, city, wage, job, case, excuse, dog.

    Synonyms

    * See also * See also

    Derived terms

    * miserablism * miserabilism * miserablist * miserabilist