Definitions for misery

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misery mis·er·y

Spelling: [miz-uh-ree]

IPA: /ˈmɪz ə ri/

Misery is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 100 anagrams from letters in misery (eimrsy).

Definitions for misery

noun

1. wretchedness of condition or circumstances.
2. distress or suffering caused by need, privation, or poverty.
3. great mental or emotional distress; extreme unhappiness.
4. a cause or source of distress.
5. Older Use. a pain: rheumatism. Often, miseries. a case or period of despondency or gloom.

Origin of misery

1325-75; Middle English miserie Latin miseria, equivalent to miser wretched + -ia -y³

Examples for misery

Another film you made, that a lot of people might not know you directed, is misery.

Now, she was sunken in an apathy that saved her from the worst pangs of misery.

If comedy is born of pain and misery, he has already experienced more than his share.

It breaks up families, burns hope, and perpetuates cycles of misery.

On a Smiths-themed boat tour, the phrase ‘misery loves company’ is predictably proven.

But she had not so much share in her own cheerfulness as her poor aunts had in their misery.

And let it be considered, what misery to me, Madam, if I marry that hated Solmes!

In the selfishness of his misery he looked upon this as lack of sympathy with himself.

And what I overheard in the armoury--about a telegram--telling me--putting me out of my misery?

She actively, and with glee, imbued their lives with an abundance of misery.