Misery
['mɪz(ə)rɪ] or ['mɪzəri]
Definition
(noun.) a feeling of intense unhappiness; 'she was exhausted by her misery and grief'.
(noun.) a state of ill-being due to affliction or misfortune; 'the misery and wretchedness of those slums is intolerable'.
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Definition
(n.) Great unhappiness; extreme pain of body or mind; wretchedness; distress; woe.
(n.) Cause of misery; calamity; misfortune.
(n.) Covetousness; niggardliness; avarice.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Distress, wretchedness, woe, tribulation, desolation, sorrow, grief, affliction, heartache, heavy heart, bleeding heart, broken heart, great unhappiness.[2]. Calamity, MISFORTUNE.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Wretchedness, heartache, woe, broken_heart, bleeding_heart,{great_unhappiness},[See CALAMITY_and_MISFORTUNE]
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Definition
n. wretchedness: great unhappiness: extreme pain of body or of mind: a cause of pain or sorrow: (Shak.) avarice.
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Examples
- I have something beyond this, but I will call it a defect, not an endowment, if it leads me to misery, while ye are happy. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- But when she went away, he relapsed under the misery of his dissolution. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Happiness or misery was now the question. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Gerty knelt beside her, waiting, with the patience born of experience, till this gust of misery should loosen fresh speech. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Scores of millions were suffering and enfeebled by under-nourishment and misery. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- And when my only prayer was to be taken off from the rest and when it was such inexplicable agony and misery to be a part of the dreadful thing? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I wish, cried she, that I were to die with you; I cannot live in this world of misery. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- I do not mean that the members weren't deeply touched by the misery of these thousands of women. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Assuredly, brother, said Isaac, and Heaven be praised that raised me up a comforter in my misery. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- His skin, nearly black, his matted hair and bristly beard, were signs of a long protracted misery. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- He has strewn with misery the paths of others, and he will live to strew with misery the path of this woman by his side. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Go--leave me to my misery, boys, I am a ruined community. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Then I was ill and in misery, and heard, as I had often heard before, that this was all the work of Chancery. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- You could scarcely escape discredit and misery. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- No, indeed, Miss Woodhouse, you need not be afraid; I can sit and admire him now without any great misery. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Tom himself began to fret over the scene-painter's slow progress, and to feel the miseries of waiting. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- All the miseries and discontents of life he traces to insatiable selfishness. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I neither spoke or looked, but sat motionless, bewildered by the multitude of miseries that overcame me. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Melancholy followed, but by degrees I gained a clear conception of my miseries and situation, and was then released from my prison. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- He was a mechanic; and, rendered unable to attend to the occupation which supplied his necessities, famine was added to his other miseries. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- He would have no RAISON D'ETRE if there were no lugubrious miseries in the world, as an undertaker would have no meaning if there were no funerals. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- It was all over wives and angels, and eternal constancy, and eternal despair; with miseries and tortures without end. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- I only ask you to endure one more night under this roof, Jane; and then, farewell to its miseries and terrors for ever! Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- The miseries it entails are genuine miseries--not points of etiquette or infringements of convention. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The belief in such compensation is a great opiate for present miseries. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Rum fellow--does the heavy business--no actor--strange man--all sorts of miseries--Dismal Jemmy, we call him on the circuit. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Soon these burning miseries will be extinct. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- I, who have so interested an affection for you, may increase your miseries ten-fold, by being an obstacle to your wishes. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- The miseries of mankind would be diminished by it, and the happiness of millions secured and promoted. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Accidents, miseries, and offences, were never to be mentioned before her. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
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