'misery' definitions:
Definition of 'misery'
(from WordNet)
noun
A state of ill-being due to affliction or misfortune; "the misery and wretchedness of those slums is intolerable" [syn: misery, wretchedness, miserableness]
noun
A feeling of intense unhappiness; "she was exhausted by her misery and grief"
Synonyms of 'misery'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- ache,
- aches and pains,
- aching heart,
- adversity,
- affliction,
- agony,
- agony of mind,
- angst,
- anguish,
- anxiety,
- bale,
- bitterness,
- bleeding heart,
- broken heart,
- burden,
- calamity,
- care,
- carking care,
- Cassandra,
- catastrophe,
- cheerlessness,
- crushing,
- curse,
- cynic,
- dampener,
- damper,
- dejection,
- depression,
- depth of misery,
- desolation,
- despair,
- desperation,
- despondency,
- destitution,
- disaster,
- discomfort,
- discontent,
- displeasure,
- distress,
- dolor,
- extremity,
- gloom,
- gloomy Gus,
- grief,
- grimness,
- grouch,
- grump,
- hardship,
- heartache,
- heartfelt grief,
- heartgrief,
- heavy heart,
- humorlessness,
- hurt,
- hurting,
- indigence,
- infelicity,
- infestivity,
- joylessness,
- killjoy,
- lamentation,
- languishment,
- malaise,
- malcontent,
- melancholia,
- melancholy,
- mirthlessness,
- misfortune,
- ordeal,
- pain,
- pang,
- passion,
- penury,
- pessimist,
- pining,
- poverty,
- privation,
- prophet of doom,
- prostration,
- sadness,
- Schmerz,
- sordidness,
- sorrow,
- sorrowing,
- sourpuss,
- spoilsport,
- squalor,
- stitch,
- suffering,
- suicidal despair,
- throe,
- trial,
- tribulation,
- trouble,
- twinge,
- uncheerfulness,
- unhappiness,
- unjoyfulness,
- unmirthfulness,
- wet blanket,
- woe,
- wretchedness