Miserable vs Miseryguts - What's the difference?
miserable | miseryguts |
In a state of misery: very sad, ill, or poor.
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*: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.
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*: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.
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Wretched; worthless; mean.
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(lb) Causing unhappiness or misery.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:What's more miserable than discontent?
(lb) Avaricious; niggardly; miserly.
:(Hooker)
(colloquial) A miserable, negative person.
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As an adjective miserable
is in a state of misery: very sad, ill, or poor.As a noun miseryguts is
a miserable, negative person.miserable
English
Adjective
(en-adj)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.}}
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 alsoDerived terms
* miserablism * miserabilism * miserablist * miserabilistmiseryguts
English
Noun
(miseryguts)- He was regarded standoffish or withdrawn or even as a miseryguts .
- You know, Jers, you've become one incredible miseryguts . A grumpy old granny. I mean, I'm offering you a hand, here.
- At the end of the decade, the Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen, better known as an accomplished miseryguts , captured the zeitgeist more perceptively than most...