misery
Meaning
- 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
destitution
bitter experience
sad thoughts
avaritia
extreme poverty
casus
ill-lucks
painful feeling
utter poverty
troubles and difficulties
ill fortune
natural resin
pangs of death
Frequency
Hyphenated as
mis‧ery
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈmɪz(ə)ɹɪ/
Etymology
In summary
From Middle English miserie, from Old French miserie (modern: misère), from Latin miseria, from miser, equivalent to miser + -y. Doublet of misère.
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