misery
noun
[ ˈmɪz(ə)ri ]
• a state or feeling of great physical or mental distress or discomfort.
• "a man who had brought her nothing but misery"
Similar:
unhappiness,
distress,
wretchedness,
hardship,
suffering,
affliction,
anguish,
anxiety,
angst,
torment,
torture,
hell,
agony,
pain,
discomfort,
deprivation,
poverty,
grief,
heartache,
heartbreak,
heartbrokenness,
despair,
despondency,
dejection,
depression,
desolation,
gloom,
gloominess,
low spirits,
moroseness,
doldrums,
melancholy,
melancholia,
woe,
sadness,
sorrow,
the dumps,
the blues,
dolour,
Origin:
late Middle English: from Old French miserie, from Latin miseria, from miser ‘wretched’.
