n. | 1. | |
1. | Great unhappiness; extreme pain of body or mind; wretchedness; distress; woe. | |
2. | Cause of misery; calamity; misfortune. | |
3. | Covetousness; niggardliness; avarice. |
Noun | 1. | misery - a state of ill-being due to affliction or misfortune; "the misery and wretchedness of those slums is intolerable" Synonyms: wretchedness |
2. | misery - a feeling of intense unhappiness; "she was exhausted by her misery and grief" |