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Synonyms for misery
ˈmɪz ə rimis·e·ry

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English Synonyms and Antonyms4.0 / 2 votes

  1. misery

    Misfortune is adverse fortune or any instance thereof, any untoward event, usually of lingering character or consequences, and such as the sufferer is not deemed directly responsible for; as, he had the misfortune to be born blind. Any considerable disappointment, failure, or misfortune, as regards outward circumstances, as loss of fortune, position, and the like, when long continued or attended with enduring consequences, constitutes adversity. For the loss of friends by death we commonly use affliction or bereavement. Calamity and disaster are used of sudden and severe misfortunes, often overwhelming; ill fortune and ill luck, of lighter troubles and failures. We speak of the misery of the poor, the hardships of the soldier. Affliction, chastening, trial, and tribulation have all an especially religious bearing, suggesting some disciplinary purpose of God with beneficent design. Affliction may be keen and bitter, but brief; tribulation is long and wearing. We speak of an affliction, but rarely of a tribulation, since tribulation is viewed as a continuous process, which may endure for years or for a lifetime; but we speak of our daily trials. Compare CATASTROPHE.

    Synonyms:
    adversity, affliction, bereavement, blow, calamity, chastening, chastisement, disappointment, disaster, distress, failure, hardship, harm, ill, ill fortune, ill luck, misadventure, mischance, misfortune, mishap, reverse, ruin, sorrow, stroke, trial, tribulation, trouble, visitation

    Antonyms:
    blessing, boon, comfort, consolation, good fortune, good luck, gratification, happiness, joy, pleasure, prosperity, relief, success, triumph

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms5.0 / 1 vote

  1. misery

    Synonyms:
    wretchedness, heartache, woe, broken heart, bleeding heart, great unhappiness

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. misery, wretchedness, miserablenessnoun

    a state of ill-being due to affliction or misfortune

    "the misery and wretchedness of those slums is intolerable"

    Synonyms:
    wretchedness, miserableness

  2. miserynoun

    a feeling of intense unhappiness

    "she was exhausted by her misery and grief"

    Synonyms:
    wretchedness, miserableness

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Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. miserynoun

    Synonyms:
    distress, wretchedness, woe, tribulation, desolation, sorrow, grief, affliction, heartache, heavy heart, bleeding heart, broken heart, great unhappiness

  2. miserynoun

    Synonyms:
    calamity, MISFORTUNE

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How to use misery in a sentence?

  1. Russell Baker:

    Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.

  2. Suzanne Heller:

    Misery is when grown-ups don't realize how miserable kids can feel.

  3. Martha Washington:

    I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.

  4. STOOLarts KONCEPT:

    You're no mystery, But just plain MISERY.

  5. Jerome K. Jerome:

    The shy man does have some slight revenge upon society for the torture it inflicts upon him. He is able, to a certain extent, to communicate his misery. He frightens other people as much as they frighten him. He acts like a damper upon the whole room, and the most jovial spirits become, in his presence, depressed and nervous.


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