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misery Noun pl -eries 1. intense unhappiness or suffering 2. something which causes such unhappiness 3. squalid or poverty-stricken conditions 4. Brit informal a person who is habitually depressed: he is such a misery [Latin miser wretched]
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misery noun 1. unhappiness, distress, despair, grief, suffering, depression, torture, agony, gloom, sadness, discomfort, torment, hardship, sorrow, woe, anguish, melancholy, desolation, wretchedness << OPPOSITE happiness noun 2. poverty, want, need, squalor, privation, penury, destitution, wretchedness, sordidness, indigence << OPPOSITE luxury noun 3. Brit. (informal) moaner, pessimist, killjoy, spoilsport, grouch (informal) prophet of doom, wet blanket (informal) sourpuss (informal) wowser Austral., N.Z. (slang) noun 4. misfortune, trouble, trial, disaster, load, burden, curse, ordeal, hardship, catastrophe, sorrow, woe, calamity, affliction, tribulation, bitter pill (informal) Translations (wretchedness) → Elend nt; (inf) (person) → Miesepeter m |
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He seemed extremely unhappy; but when she took his arm and walked away with him, seeking a retired corner, a ray of hope mingled with the almost comical misery of his expression. For, dear Hetty, if I were to do what you one day spoke of, and make you my wife, I should do what you yourself would come to feel was for your misery instead of your welfare. That he did not himself tell her may be forgiven him, for he had only a life of misery to look forward to after she should know that he, too, was equally a soulless monster with the twelve that had preceded him to a merciful death. |
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