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. Georges Bernanos:

   Justice in the hands of the powerful is merely a governing system like any other. Why call it justice? Let us rather call it injustice, but of a sly effective order, based entirely on cruel knowledge of the resistance of the weak, their capacity for pain, humiliation and misery.

2. Harriet Beecher Stowe:

   So long as the law considers all these human beings, with beating hearts and living affections, only as so many things belonging to the master -- so long as the failure, or misfortune, or imprudence, or death of the kindest owner, may cause them any day to exchange a life of kind protection and indulgence for one of hopeless misery and toil -- so long it is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best-regulated administration of slavery.

3. China Daily:

   Ideologues in Western governments never cease in their efforts to engineer unrest against governments that are not to their liking, even though their actions have caused misery and chaos in country after country in Latin America, Africa, the Middle East and Asia, now they are trying the same trick in China.

4. William Cobbett:

   Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.

5. Matthew Arnold:

   Resolve to be thyself and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery.