Misery

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. The state of suffering and want as a result of physical circumstances or extreme poverty.
  • noun. Mental or emotional unhappiness or distress.
  • noun. A cause or source of suffering.
  • noun. A physical ache or ailment.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A state of grievous affliction or unhappiness; mental or physical suffering; wretchedness.
  • noun. Any afflictive or depressed condition; want of the means of livelihood; destitution: as, the burning of the factory caused much misery among the poor.
  • noun. A seated pain or ache; an acute local ailment: as, to have a misery in the teeth, or a misery in the side or back.
  • noun. That which makes miserable; a cause or source of affliction; misfortune; calamity: generally in the plural.
  • noun. Miserliness; penuriousness.
  • noun. Synonyms Affliction, Grief, Sorrow, etc. See affliction.
  • noun. See misére.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. Great unhappiness; extreme pain of body or mind; wretchedness; distress; woe.
  • noun. Cause of misery; calamity; misfortune.
  • noun. Covetousness; niggardliness; avarice.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Great unhappiness; extreme pain of body or mind; wretchedness; distress; woe.
  • noun. Cause of misery; calamity; misfortune.
  • noun. poverty
  • noun. Covetousness; niggardliness; avarice.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a state of ill-being due to affliction or misfortune
  • noun. a feeling of intense unhappiness
  • Word Usage
    "Living in misery is no solution even McCain has moved on. —"
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