Synonyms for misery
ˈmɪz ə rimis·e·ry

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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

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1. misery

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

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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

Matched Categories

1. • Ill-being
   • Sadness

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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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1. List of paraphrases for "misery":

   destitution, suffering, squalor, poverty, pittance, misfortune, distress, plight, wretchedness, hardship, deprivation, pain, unhappiness, penury, poverty-level, trifle, wretched, breadline, woe

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1. Attorney General Bill Barr:

   The campaign to destroy the traditional moral order has coincided and I believe has brought with it immense suffering and misery. And yet the forces of secularism, ignoring these tragic results, press on with even greater militancy.

2. Neil Williams:

   In macro terms at least, the worst of the crisis looks like it is over for the euro zone and certainly my own 'misery indices' are looking less bad.

3. Leonardo DaVinci, The notebooks of Leonardo DaVinci by Macurdy:

   Supreme happiness will be the greatest cause of misery, and the perfection of wisdom the occassion of folly.

4. Marcus Tullius Cicero:

   Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

5. Jane Austen, Mansfield Park:

   In all the important preparations of the mind she was complete: being prepared for matrimony by an hatred of home, restraint, and tranquillity; by the misery of disappointed affection, and contempt of the man she was to marry.