Thesaurus: misery

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1. n. Great unhappiness; extreme pain of body or mind; wretchedness; distress; woe.
2. n. Cause of misery; calamity; misfortune.
3. n. Covetousness; niggardliness; avarice.
4. n. a state of ill-being due to affliction or misfortune
5. n. a feeling of intense unhappiness
6. 1. Great unhappiness; extreme pain of body or mind; wretchedness; distress; woe. Chaucer. Destruction and misery are in their ways. Rom. iii. 16. 2. Cause of misery; calamity; misfortune. When we our betters see bearing our woes, We scarcely think our miseries our foes. Shak. 3. Covetousness; niggardliness; avarice. [Obs.] Syn. -- Wretchedness; torture; agony; torment; anguish; distress; calamity; misfortune.
7. n:100 n. a state of ill-being due to affliction or misfortune n. a feeling of intense unhappiness