misery

Meanings

Plural: miseries

Noun

• a state of ill-being due to affliction or misfortune
  • "the misery and wretchedness of those slums is intolerable"
• a feeling of intense unhappiness
  • "she was exhausted by her misery and grief"
• Great unhappiness; extreme pain of body or mind; wretchedness; distress; woe.
• A bodily ache or pain.
• Cause of misery; calamity; misfortune.
• poverty.
• greed; avarice.

Synonyms

adversity, affliction, aggrievance, armth, avarice, beggary, blueness, blues, covetise, covetousness, crestfallenness, cupidity, dejection, depression, despondency, destitution, distress, dolefulness, downheartedness, drearihead, forlornness, greed, greediness, grief, grievance, hardship, heartsore, ill-being, impecuniosity, impecuniousness, indigence, infelicity, Mammon, melancholia, melancholy, mendicancy, mendicity, miserableness, misery, mishappiness, mourn, neediness, pain, pauperism, penury, poverty, privation, prosternation, rapacity, reduced circumstances, regret, rue, ruth, sadness, slender means, sorrow, sorrowfulness, straitened circumstances, tristfulness, undelight, unhappiness, vexation, wark, woe, woefare, wretchedness, wrong

Related Words

commiserate, miser, miserable