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
The chief difference between words and deeds is that words
are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds
can be done only for God.