About The Word Misery
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Misery
Misery Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Misery?
[n] a feeling of intense unhappiness; "she was exhausted by her misery and grief"
[n] a state of ill-being due to affliction or misfortune; "the misery and wretchedness of those slums is intolerable" Synonyms | Synonyms for Misery: wretchedness Related Terms | Find terms related to Misery: ache | aches and pains | aching heart | adversity | affliction | agony | agony of mind | angst | anguish | anxiety | bale | bitterness | bleeding heart | broken heart | burden | calamity | care | carking care | Cassandra | catastrophe | cheerlessness | crushing | curse | cynic | dampener | damper | dejection | depression | depth of misery | desolation | despair | desperation | despondency | destitution | disaster | discomfort | discontent | displeasure | distress | dolor | extremity | gloom | gloomy Gus | grief | grimness | grouch | grump | hardship | heartache | heartfelt grief | heartgrief | heavy heart | humorlessness | hurt | hurting | indigence | infelicity | infestivity | joylessness | killjoy | lamentation | languishment | malaise | malcontent | melancholia | melancholy | mirthlessness | misfortune | ordeal | pain | pang | passion | penury | pessimist | pining | poverty | privation | prophet of doom | prostration | sadness | Schmerz | sordidness | sorrow | sorrowing | sourpuss | spoilsport | squalor | stitch | suffering | suicidal despair | throe | trial | tribulation | trouble | twinge | uncheerfulness | unhappiness | unjoyfulness | unmirthfulness | wet blanket | woe | wretchedness See Also | ill-being | living death | sadness | suffering | unhappiness | woe Misery In Webster's Dictionary \Mi"ser*y\, n.; pl. {Miseries}. [OE. miserie, L. miseria,
fr. miser wretched: cf. F. mis[`e]re, OF. also, miserie.]
1. Great unhappiness; extreme pain of body or mind;
wretchedness; distress; woe. --Chaucer.
Destruction and misery are in their ways. --Rom.
iii. 16.
2. Cause of misery; calamity; misfortune.
When we our betters see bearing our woes, We
scarcely think our miseries our foes. --Shak.
3. Covetousness; niggardliness; avarice. [Obs.]
Syn: Wretchedness; torture; agony; torment; anguish;
distress; calamity; misfortune.
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