be miserable

Synonyms

grieve mope moped sorrowing

Antonyms

simper jump for joy enwrap obtrude take heart make merry
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Examples

I always say I'd rather be miserable by myself than unhappy in a relationship. Graham Norton

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library. Jane Austen

Human beings may be miserable specimens, in the main, but we can learn, and, through learning, become decent people. Orson Scott Card

People can inhabit anything. And they can be miserable in anything and ecstatic in anything. More and more I think that architecture has nothing to do with it. Of course, that's both liberating and alarming. Rem Koolhaas

But if you don't enjoy doing something, you'll be miserable no matter how much money you make. Bob Schieffer

Who fails to show restraint in their youth, will be miserable in their old age. Sicilian Proverb

Words in the phrase

be miserable

Close letter words and terms

be misbehaved be miscarrying be mischievous be misguided about be misinformed be mismatched