miserable

/miseˈɾable/ · B1 · adj

miserable

💰😢 From Latin miser, wretched: a miser is stingy, and miserable means poor

Spanish miserable keeps the full Latin range of miser: wretched, poor, and stingy. English kept the stingy sense in the word miser, so a Spanish miserable can be a tightwad, not only someone who is unhappy.

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