Associations to the word «Misery»
Noun
- Happiness
- Suffering
- Desolation
- Calamity
- Affliction
- Woe
- Wickedness
- Despair
- Starvation
- Remorse
- Misfortune
- Sorrow
- Filth
- Wretch
- Idleness
- Anguish
- Hunger
- Oppression
- Degradation
- Hardship
- Felicity
- Famine
- Servitude
- Torment
- Distress
- Shame
- Agony
- Humiliation
- Injustice
- Poverty
- Grief
- Loneliness
- Ignorance
- Pity
- Compassion
- Disgrace
- Toil
- Guilt
- Evil
- Mankind
- Cruelty
- Sickness
- Malady
- Bitterness
- Abyss
- Wail
- Repentance
- Consolation
- Dirt
- Pang
- Alms
- Reproach
- Deliverance
- Splendour
- Sufferer
- Moan
- Weariness
- Contemplation
- Starving
- Greed
- Sin
- Magnificence
- Aching
Adjective
Wiktionary
MISERY, noun. Great unhappiness; extreme pain of body or mind; wretchedness; distress; woe.
MISERY, noun. Cause of misery; calamity; misfortune.
MISERY, noun. (Extreme) poverty.
MISERY, noun. (archaic) Greed; avarice.
MISERY INDEX, noun. (economics) An economic indicator formed by adding the unemployment rate to the inflation rate.
MISERY LIT, noun. (informal) A genre of supposedly biographical literature mostly concerned with the protagonist's triumph over personal trauma or abuse.
MISERY WHIP, noun. (logging) A two-man crosscut saw, often more than ten feet in length, used to fell large trees.
Dictionary definition
MISERY, noun. A state of ill-being due to affliction or misfortune; "the misery and wretchedness of those slums is intolerable".
MISERY, noun. A feeling of intense unhappiness; "she was exhausted by her misery and grief".
Wise words
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