ETYM Latin abjectus, p. p. of abjicere to throw away; ab + jacere to throw. Related to Jet a shooting forth.
1. Most unfortunate or miserable.
2. Of the most contemptible kind; SYN. low, low-down, miserable, scummy, scurvy.
3. Showing humiliation or submissiveness.
4. Showing utter resignation or hopelessness; SYN. resigned, unhopeful.
Humble; miserable; craven.

ETYM Old Eng. bar, bare, AS. baer; akin to Dutch and German baar, Old High Germ. par, Icel. berr, Swed. and Dan. bar, Old Slav. bosu barefoot, Lith. basas; cf. Skr. bhâs to shine.
(Homonym: bear).
1. Completely unclothed; SYN. au naturel, naked, nude.
2. Denuded of leaves.
3. Apart from anything else; without additions or modifications; SYN. mere, simple.
4. Having extraneous everything removed including contents; SYN. stripped.
5. Just barely adequate or within a lower limit; SYN. marginal.
6. Lacking a surface finish such as paint; SYN. unfinished.
7. Lacking in amplitude or quantity; SYN. scanty, spare.
8. Providing no shelter or sustenance; SYN. barren, bleak, desolate, stark.
9. Showing ground without the usual covering of grass.

1. Marked by poverty befitting a beggar; SYN. mean.
2. Used of sums of money; so small in amount as to deserve contempt; SYN. mean.

ETYM Abbrev. from: a good purchase or bargain; cf. French bon marché, à bon marché. Related to Cheap, Cheapen.
1. Embarrassingly stingy; SYN. chinchy, chintzy.
2. Relatively low in price or charging low prices; SYN. inexpensive.

Crummy.

ETYM Cf. French déplorable.
1. Of very poor quality or condition; SYN. execrable, miserable, woeful, wretched.
2. Very bad; SYN. distressing, lamentable, pitiful, sad, sorry.

Marked by deprivation especially of the necessities of life or healthful environmental influences; SYN. disadvantaged.

Dejected, sulky.

ETYM Old Eng., p. p. of forlesen to lose utterly, AS. forleósan (p. p. forloren); pref. for- + leósan (in comp.) to lose; cf. Dutch verliezen to lose, German verlieren, Swed. förlora, Dan. forloren, Goth. fraliusan to lose. Related to For-, and Lorn, Lose.
Marked by or showing hopelessness.

ETYM French hagard; of German origin, and prop. meaning, of the hegde or woods, wild, untamed. Related to Hedge, Haw, and -ard.
1. Wild or intractable; disposed to break away from duty; untamed.
2. Having the expression of one wasted by want or suffering; hollow-eyed; having the features distorted or wasted, or anxious in appearance.

ETYM French misérable, Latin miserabilis, from miserari to lament, pity, from miser wretched. Related to Miser.
1. Characterized by physical misery; SYN. wretched.
2. Very unhappy; full of misery; SYN. suffering, wretched.

1. Shabbily dressed
2. Short of funds

Poor in number or in quality; worthless; pitiful; trifling

ETYM Old Eng. pitous, Old Fren. pitos, French piteux. Related to Pity.
1. Fitted to excite pity or sympathy; wretched; miserable; lamentable; sad.
2. Paltry; mean; pitiful.
3. Evincing pity, compassion, or sympathy; compassionate; tender.
4. Arousing or deserving pity.

ETYM Cf. Old Fren. pitiable, French pitoyable.
1. Deserving pity; worthy of, or exciting, compassion.
2. Of a kind to evoke mingled pity and contempt especially because of inadequacy.

(Homonym: pore, pour).
1. Having little money or few possessions.
2. Characterized by or indicating lack of money.
3. Badly supplied with desirable qualities or substances.
4. Low in degree.
5. Unsatisfactory.

1. Experiencing or showing or causing sorrow or unhappiness
2. Expressive of sorrow
3. Exemplary of misfortune

(Zoology) Having the body covered or partially covered with thin horny plates, as some fish and reptiles; SYN. scaley, scaled.

Mean and unworthy and despicable

ETYM Latin squalidus, from squalere to be foul or filthy.
1. Dirty through neglect; foul; filthy; extremely dirty.
2. Morally repulsive.

1. Full of woe; grievous
2. Involving or bringing woe
3. Lamentably bad or serious; deplorable

1. Containing a worm; abounding with worms.
2. Like or pertaining to a worm; earthy; groveling.

1. Very miserable; sunk in, or accompanied by, deep affliction or distress, as from want, anxiety, or grief.
2. Worthless; paltry; very poor or mean; miserable.
3. Hatefully contemptible; despicable; wicked.

(Slang) Rear end; buttocks.

ETYM Perh. from French coiffe headdress, hood, or coif; as if the cuff were a cap for the hand. Related to Coif.
The turned-back hem encircling the end of the sleeve or leg; SYN. turnup.