n. A state of grievous affliction or unhappiness; mental or physical suffering; wretchedness.n. Any afflictive or depressed condition; want of the means of livelihood; destitution: as, the burning of the factory caused much misery among the poor.n. A seated pain or ache; an acute local ailment: as, to have a misery in the teeth, or a misery in the side or back.n. That which makes miserable; a cause or source of affliction; misfortune; calamity: generally in the plural.n. Miserliness; penuriousness.n. Synonyms Affliction, Grief, Sorrow, etc. See affliction.n. See misére.