misery

Plural: miseries

Noun

• A state of great suffering, unhappiness, or discomfort.
• a state of ill-being due to affliction or misfortune
  • "the misery and wretchedness of those slums is intolerable"
• a feeling of intense unhappiness
  • "she was exhausted by her misery and grief"
• Great unhappiness; extreme pain of body or mind; wretchedness; distress; woe.
• A bodily ache or pain.
• Cause of misery; calamity; misfortune.
• poverty.
• greed; avarice.

Examples

• A rack full of only vowels or only consonants can cause true misery for a Scrabble player.
• Ever since his wife left him you can see the misery on his face.

Synonyms

miserableness, wretchedness, Mammon, adversity, affliction, aggrievance, armth, avarice, beggary, blueness, blues, covetise, covetousness, crestfallenness, cupidity, dejection, depression, despondency, destitution, distress, dolefulness, downheartedness, drearihead, forlornness, greed, greediness, grief, grievance, hardship, heartsore, ill-being, impecuniosity, impecuniousness, indigence, infelicity, melancholia, melancholy, mendicancy, mendicity, misery, mishappiness, mourn, neediness, pain, pauperism, penury, poverty, privation, prosternation, rapacity, reduced circumstances, regret, rue, ruth, sadness, slender means, sorrow, sorrowfulness, straitened circumstances, tristfulness, undelight, unhappiness, vexation, wark, woe, woefare, wrong

Related Words

commiserate, miser, miserable