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Misery

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Noun

1. miserableness, misery, wretchedness

a state of ill-being due to affliction or misfortune

Example Sentences:
'the misery and wretchedness of those slums is intolerable'

2. misery

a feeling of intense unhappiness

Example Sentences:
'she was exhausted by her misery and grief'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Misery

see synonyms of misery
noun plural -eries
1. 
intense unhappiness, discomfort, or suffering; wretchedness
2. 
a cause of such unhappiness, discomfort, etc
3. 
squalid or poverty-stricken conditions
4. British informal
a person who is habitually depressed
he is such a misery
5. dialect
a pain or ailment

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Misery

see synonyms of misery
nounWord forms: plural ˈmiseries
1. 
a condition of great wretchedness or suffering because of pain, sorrow, poverty, etc.; distress
2. 
a cause of such suffering; pain, sorrow, poverty, squalor, etc.
3.  Dialectal
a pain (in some part of the body)

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Misery

see synonyms of misery
n. pl. mis·er·ies
1.
a. The state of suffering and want as a result of physical circumstances or extreme poverty.
b. Mental or emotional unhappiness or distress: "Our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions, and not on our circumstances" (Martha Washington).
2. A cause or source of suffering: the miseries of adolescence.
3. Informal A physical ache or ailment.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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