Misery definition

mĭzə-rē
miseries
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(dial.) A pain (in some part of the body)
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A cause or source of suffering.

The miseries of adolescence.

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A condition of great wretchedness or suffering because of pain, sorrow, poverty, etc.; distress.
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A cause of such suffering; pain, sorrow, poverty, squalor, etc.
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Misery is defined as the condition of suffering.

An example of misery is living during a war without enough water or food.

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Misery means an extremely unhappy feeling.

An example of misery is the sadness someone feels after a family member dies.

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(informal) A physical ache or ailment.
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The state of suffering and want as a result of physical circumstances or extreme poverty.
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Mental or emotional unhappiness or distress.
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Noun

Singular:
misery
Plural:
miseries

Origin of misery

  • Middle English miserie from Old French from Latin miseria from miser wretched

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Misery Sentence Examples

  • Alex would make the misery go away.

  • During the Thirty Years' War the city received no direct harm; but the ruin of Germany reacted upon its prosperity, and the misery of the lower orders led to an agitation against the Rath.

  • Under these heads it discusses respectively the sin and misery of men, the redemption wrought by Christ (here are included the Creed and the Sacraments), and the grateful service of the new life (the Decalogue).

  • The subject is here that of a high goddess of heaven (she has 70 sons) whose friend and lover finds her in the misery of deepest degradation, frees her, and bears her home as his bride.

  • Each of them desired nothing more than to give himself up as a prisoner to escape from all this horror and misery; but on the one hand the force of this common attraction to Smolensk, their goal, drew each of them in the same direction; on the other hand an army corps could not surrender to a company, and though the French availed themselves of every convenient opportunity to detach themselves and to surrender on the slightest decent pretext, such pretexts did not always occur.

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