Synonyms for misery
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : miz-uh-ree |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈmɪz ə ri |
Top 10 synonyms for misery Other synonyms for the word misery
- ache
- affliction
- anvil chorus
- bad news
- bitter pill
- blues
- curse
- depression
- desolation
- despondency
- destitution
- distress
- dolor
- gloom
- grief
- hardship
- headache
- heartache
- hurting
- indigence
- load
- melancholy
- misfortune
- need
- ordeal
- pang
- passion
- penury
- poverty
- privation
- problem
- sadness
- sordidness
- sorrow
- squalor
- stitch
- suffering
- throe
- torment
- torture
- trial
- tribulation
- twinge
- unhappiness
- want
- woe
- worriment
- worry
- wretchedness
Définition of misery
Origin :- late 14c., "condition of external unhappiness," from Old French misere "miserable situation, misfortune, distress" (12c.), from Latin miseria "wretchedness," from miser (see miser). Meaning "condition of one in great sorrow or mental distress" is from 1530s. Meaning "bodily pain" is 1825, American English.
- noun pain, mental or physical
- noun trouble, disaster
- And let it be considered, what misery to me, Madam, if I marry that hated Solmes!
- Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 1 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson
- And what I overheard in the armoury--about a telegram--telling me--putting me out of my misery?
- Extract from : « Viviette » by William J. Locke
- But she had not so much share in her own cheerfulness as her poor aunts had in their misery.
- Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
- In the selfishness of his misery he looked upon this as lack of sympathy with himself.
- Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
- Now, she was sunken in an apathy that saved her from the worst pangs of misery.
- Extract from : « Within the Law » by Marvin Dana
- Out of that fact, he drew an immediate comfort in this period of his misery.
- Extract from : « Within the Law » by Marvin Dana
- When Shakespeare's mistress had her will, did she fall to misery, I wonder?
- Extract from : « The Man Shakespeare » by Frank Harris
- Garson was thinking of Mary, and, with the thought, into his misery crept a little comfort.
- Extract from : « Within the Law » by Marvin Dana
- Misery implied affection, and her love for Palmer was quite dead.
- Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart
- The breaking of the marriage covenant is followed by shame and misery.
- Extract from : « An Explanation of Luther's Small Catechism » by Joseph Stump
Antonyms for misery
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