misery

[Mi·ser*y]

Misery is a state of deep unhappiness or discomfort. It's not dropping your ice cream cone. It's having a hairy monster steal your ice cream cone, eat it in one bite, and then kidnap you and carry you off to his cave.

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Great unhappiness; extreme pain of body or mind; wretchedness; distress; woe.

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"


n.
Great unhappiness; extreme pain of body or mind; wretchedness; distress; woe.

n.
Cause of misery; calamity; misfortune.

n.
Covetousness; niggardliness; avarice.


Misery

Mi"ser*y , n.; pl. Miseries . [OE. miserie, L. miseria, fr. miser wretched: cf. F. mis'8are, OF. also, miserie.] 1. Great unhappiness; extreme pain of body or mind; wretchedness; distress; woe. Chaucer.
Destruction and misery are in their ways.
2. Cause of misery; calamity; misfortune.
When we our betters see bearing our woes, We scarcely think our miseries our foes.
3. Covetousness; niggardliness; avarice. [Obs.] Syn. -- Wretchedness; torture; agony; torment; anguish; distress; calamity; misfortune.

Great unhappiness; extreme pain of body or mind; wretchedness; distress; woe.

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Usage Examples

He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.

I guess lyrically they're similar because they're talking about escaping the kind of misery that likes company. 'The Last One Alive,' for me, is very simple. It's just about alienation, really, that causes anger.

Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.

I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.

Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.

Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.

By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.

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Other Usage Examples

As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.

I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.

Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.

Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.

I find that people find a way out of misery through humor and it's humor that's often unacceptable to people who are not in quite such a state of misery.

A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted by android Barbie creep. All those thick swatches of lifeless strands clustering lankly round ladies' necks! Like orange tanning spray, this is a fashion fad that should be put out of its misery.

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