Searing vs Miserable - What's the difference?
searing | miserable | Related terms |
very hot; blistering or boiling
(of a pain) having a sensation of intense sudden heat
action of the verb to sear
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* 1970 , Ebony (volume 25, number 10, August 1970, page 156)
cooking food quickly at high temperature
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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, title= * (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.
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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)
Searing is a related term of miserable.
As adjectives the difference between searing and miserable
is that searing is very hot; blistering or boiling while miserable is destitute, impoverished.As nouns the difference between searing and miserable
is that searing is action of the verb to sear while miserable is wretch, scoundrel.As a verb searing
is .searing
English
Adjective
(head)Noun
(en noun)- he was raw with the searings of the fire
- It was the time of new searings of black identity deep within the psyche of the black community.
Verb
(head)Anagrams
*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.}}