Keyword
misery
Info
FrequencyTop 1400-1500
Type
Jōyō 
?
Shinjitai ?
KankenLevel 4
Heisig1857
Old form
Readings
さん
(62%)
みじ
(16%)
ざん
(16%)
むご
(5%)
Composed of
weak heart
admit defeat
Used in vocabulary (37 in total)
miserable; wretched; unhappy; sad; pitiable
disastrous; tragic; miserable; wretched; pitiful; woeful
disastrous scene; terrible spectacle
ghastly; gruesome; appalling; lurid
tragedy; tragic event
cruel; merciless; atrocious; pitiful; tragic; horrible
great disaster; horrible tragedy; catastrophe; catastrophic event; catastrophic incident; dire calamity
slaughter; massacre
cruel; merciless; pitiless; tragic; horrible; terrible
ignominious defeat; crushing failure; utterly beaten; overwhelming defeat
sadness and gloom
disaster; tragedy; tragic incident; horrible accident
miserable; pitiful; tragic; painstaking
incredibly brutal; gory; gruesome
calamity; disaster; catastrophe
cruel; brutal; ruthless; merciless; inhuman
heavy damage; havoc; ravages
tragic death; violent death
miserable; pitiful; tragic; painstaking
appalling
terrible pain; terrible hardship; terrible suffering
ghastly; gruesome; appalling; lurid
cruel; brutal; savage; barbarous
brutal; cruel; merciless; ruthless; cold-blooded
horrible; cruel; atrocious
corpse of a person who has met a violent death
cruel and heartless; merciless; implacable; cold-blooded
to present a very terrible (miserable) sight
slump; sudden fall of market price
atrocity; cruelty; brutality
taxing one's ingenuity in devising something; agonizing over designing or creating something; making strenuous efforts to devise good ways and means to do something
wretched state; pitiable condition
heartbreaking story; tragic tale
terrible worry; extreme anxiety
terrible worry; extreme anxiety
Examples (16 in total)
The experiment resulted in a miserable failure.
They sympathized with the miserable criminal.
His heart ached when he saw his son's miserable state.