Synonyms for misery
ˈmɪz ə rimis·e·ry

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1. misery

   Misfortune is adverse fortune or any instance thereof, any untoward event, usually of lingering character or consequences, and such as the sufferer is not deemed directly responsible for; as, he had the misfortune to be born blind. Any considerable disappointment, failure, or misfortune, as regards outward circumstances, as loss of fortune, position, and the like, when long continued or attended with enduring consequences, constitutes adversity. For the loss of friends by death we commonly use affliction or bereavement. Calamity and disaster are used of sudden and severe misfortunes, often overwhelming; ill fortune and ill luck, of lighter troubles and failures. We speak of the misery of the poor, the hardships of the soldier. Affliction, chastening, trial, and tribulation have all an especially religious bearing, suggesting some disciplinary purpose of God with beneficent design. Affliction may be keen and bitter, but brief; tribulation is long and wearing. We speak of an affliction, but rarely of a tribulation, since tribulation is viewed as a continuous process, which may endure for years or for a lifetime; but we speak of our daily trials. Compare CATASTROPHE.

   Synonyms:
   adversity, affliction, bereavement, blow, calamity, chastening, chastisement, disappointment, disaster, distress, failure, hardship, harm, ill, ill fortune, ill luck, misadventure, mischance, misfortune, mishap, reverse, ruin, sorrow, stroke, trial, tribulation, trouble, visitation

   Antonyms:
   blessing, boon, comfort, consolation, good fortune, good luck, gratification, happiness, joy, pleasure, prosperity, relief, success, triumph

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1. misery

   Synonyms:
   wretchedness, heartache, woe, broken heart, bleeding heart, great unhappiness

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1. misery, wretchedness, miserablenessnoun

   a state of ill-being due to affliction or misfortune

   "the misery and wretchedness of those slums is intolerable"

   Synonyms:
   wretchedness, miserableness

2. miserynoun

   a feeling of intense unhappiness

   "she was exhausted by her misery and grief"

   Synonyms:
   wretchedness, miserableness

Matched Categories

1. • Ill-being
   • Sadness

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1. miserynoun

   Synonyms:
   distress, wretchedness, woe, tribulation, desolation, sorrow, grief, affliction, heartache, heavy heart, bleeding heart, broken heart, great unhappiness

2. miserynoun

   Synonyms:
   calamity, MISFORTUNE

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1. List of paraphrases for "misery":

   destitution, suffering, squalor, poverty, pittance, misfortune, distress, plight, wretchedness, hardship, deprivation, pain, unhappiness, penury, poverty-level, trifle, wretched, breadline, woe

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1. Kathy Bates:

   I can’t believe Jimmy’s gone. Working with him on ‘Misery’ was one of the most profound experiences of my career, when you watch his performance, his terror, it’s as though he’s watching a snake. Brilliant. So many memories flooding back today. Jimmy saying, ‘Let’s get the most hyper guy in Hollywood and make him stay in bed for 15 weeks.’ We were so excited when we got to shoot in the dining room. He was kind. Hilarious. He would have something insightfully funny to say right now. I’m bereft. Sending all my love to the Caan family.

2. Cesare Pavese:

   One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love -- any love -- reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.

3. Laurence Taylor:

   We absolutely respect people's fundamental right to protest, but we do not accept that extends to causing misery and mass disruption to everybody.

4. Chamberlain:

   Fair words without good deeds to a man in misery are like a saddle of gold clapped upon a galled horse.

5. Fred Guttenberg:

   I have no comment except to say rot in hell, Scot Peterson, fred Guttenberg could have saved some of the 17. Fred Guttenberg could have saved my daughter. Fred Guttenberg did not and then Fred Guttenberg lied about it and Fred Guttenberg deserve the misery coming Fred Guttenberg way.