Misery

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The state of suffering and want as a result of physical circumstances or extreme poverty.
  • n. Mental or emotional unhappiness or distress: "Our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions, and not on our circumstances” ( Martha Washington).
  • n. A cause or source of suffering.
  • n. Informal A physical ache or ailment.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Great unhappiness; extreme pain of body or mind; wretchedness; distress; woe.
  • n. Cause of misery; calamity; misfortune.
  • n. poverty
  • n. Covetousness; niggardliness; avarice.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Great unhappiness; extreme pain of body or mind; wretchedness; distress; woe.
  • n. Cause of misery; calamity; misfortune.
  • n. Covetousness; niggardliness; avarice.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • 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.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a state of ill-being due to affliction or misfortune
  • n. a feeling of intense unhappiness
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    sadness    unhappiness   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    agony    misfortune    calamity    anguish    wretchedness    torment    distress    torture    woe    covetousness   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    sorrow    suffer    horror    woe    poverty    shame    distress    misfortune    loneliness    cruelty