miseries

Noun

misery (countable and uncountable, plural miseries)

1. Great unhappiness; extreme pain of body or mind; wretchedness; distress; woe.
   • Ever since his wife left him you can see the misery on his face.

   Synonyms:

   dejection, grief, sorrow, blueness, tristesse, mirthless, blues, crestfallenness, depression, despondency

2. (UK, US, dialectal) A bodily ache or pain.
   • [...] and I had a misery in my left breast and shoulder. I was hurt, but knew not how or how much.1868, John Vestal Hadley, Seven Months a Prisoner, page 15

   Synonyms:

   pain, wark

3. Cause of misery; calamity; misfortune.

   Synonyms:

   adversity, woe, affliction, aggrievance, distress, grief, grievance, hardship, ruth, sadness

4. (Extreme) poverty.
   • The Widdow that hath but a pan of braſſe, […]
     Muſt pay her Landlord many a groat,
     Or twil be puld out of her throat: […]
     The rich haue all, the poore liue in miſerie: […]1593, anonymous author, The Life and Death of Iacke Straw […], →OCLC, Act I

   Synonyms:

   beggary, brokeness, destitution, impecuniosity, impecuniousness, indigence, mendicancy, mendicity, neediness, pauperism

5. (archaic) greed; avarice.

   Synonyms:

   avarice, covetise, covetousness, cupidity, gluttony, greed, greediness, Mammon, rapaciousness, rapacity

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