misery
[noun]
Synonyms:
- unhappiness, anguish, depression, desolation, despair, distress, gloom, grief, sorrow, suffering, torment, woe
- moaner, killjoy, pessimist, prophet of doom, sourpuss (informal), spoilsport, wet blanket (informal)

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Antonyms: blessedness
Contrasted words: beatitude, blessedness, bliss, felicity, happiness, content, ease, satisfaction
Related Words: agony, anguish, despondency, grief, sorrow, desolation, squalor, adversity, misfortune, dejection, depression, melancholy, sadness

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English Thesaurus: sadness, unhappiness, sorrow, misery, despair, ...

[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲

mis‧e‧ry S3 /ˈmɪzəri/ noun (plural miseries)
[Date: 1300-1400; Language: Old French; Origin: miserie, from Latin miseria, from miser; ⇒ miser]

1. [uncountable and countable] great suffering that is caused for example by being very poor or very sick:
What we are witnessing here is human misery on a vast scale.
the misery of unemployment
the miseries of war

2. [uncountable and countable] great unhappiness:
She looked away so that Tom wouldn’t see her misery.
His face was a picture of sheer misery. (=great unhappiness, with no other emotion)
The news plunged him into abject misery (=extreme unhappiness).

3. make sb’s life a misery British English to cause so much trouble for someone that they cannot enjoy their life:
Competitive mothers can make their daughters’ lives a misery.

4. put something/somebody out of their misery
a) informal to make someone stop feeling worried, especially by telling them something they are waiting to hear:
Go on, put them out of their misery and announce the winner.
b) to kill a sick or injured animal in order to end its suffering Synonym : put down:
I think you should put the poor creature out of its misery.

5. [countable] British English spoken someone who is always complaining and never enjoys anything:
Don’t be such a misery.
What’s the matter with you, misery guts (=a name for someone like this)?

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

misery
noun
ADJ. abject, deep, extreme, great, real, sheer, untold This phobia can cause untold misery for the sufferer.
complete Her misery was made complete when she was separated from her children.
personal | human | economic the country's economic misery
VERB + MISERY be full of, be wrapped (up) in, endure, feel, live in, sink into, suffer He was too wrapped in misery to reply. I sank deeper into my misery. men who suffer the misery of unemployment
bring (sb), cause (sb), create The money brought him nothing but misery.
add to, heap, prolong War has now added to the misery of these starving people. The giant-killers heaped more misery on the home team.
alleviate, ease, relieve ways to alleviate human misery
put sb/sth out of In the end we asked the vet to put the poor creature out of its misery (= kill it humanely). (humorous) Oh, put her out of her misery?tell her who won.
spare sb At least we were spared the misery of having to do it all again.
forget
PREP. ~ of the sheer misery of homelessness
PHRASES a feeling of misery, make sb's life a misery His constant criticism made her life a misery.

[TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲

sadness a sad feeling, caused especially when a happy time is ending, or when you feel sorry about someone else’s unhappiness:
Charles felt a great sense of sadness and loss.
I noticed a little sadness in her eyes.
unhappiness the unhappy feeling you have when you are in a very difficult or unpleasant situation, especially when this lasts for a long time:
After years of unhappiness, she finally decided to leave him.
She was a tense, nervous young woman, whose deep unhappiness was obvious to all those around her.
You do not know how much pain and unhappiness you have caused.
sorrow written the feeling of being very sad, especially because someone has died or because terrible things have happened to you:
There seemed to be nowhere to go to be alone with her sorrow.
His heart was filled with great sorrow after her death.
misery great unhappiness, caused especially by living or working in very bad conditions:
The cold weather is with us again and the misery of the homeless is increasing.
Thousands of families were destined to a life of misery.
The misery and pain he caused were, for him, merely a measure of his success.
despair a feeling of great unhappiness, because very bad things have happened and you have no hope that anything will change:
At the end of the month, she still had no job and was tired, frustrated, and close to despair.
grief great sadness that you feel when someone you love has died:
He was overcome with grief when his wife died.
heartache a strong feeling of great sadness, especially because you miss someone you love:
She remembered the heartache of the first Christmas spent away from her sons.
depression a mental illness that makes someone feel so unhappy that they have no energy or hope for the future, and they cannot live a normal life:
He slipped into a depression in which he hardly ate or even left his room.
despondency formal a feeling of being very unhappy and without hope:
She felt useless, and this contributed to her despondency.
melancholy literary a feeling of sadness, that you feel even though there is no particular reason for it:
Modigliani expressed his melancholy through his painting.

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