noun
misery
MIZ-er-ee/ˈmɪzəri/
Intense suffering or unhappiness.
The constant pain fills even her quiet moments with misery.
Etymology
Misery names the state of being wretched. Its early English use emphasized grievous affliction or unhappy circumstances; it later also described inward sorrow and mental distress.
In context
so completely consumed by their own Despair and misery that they lash out at the world itself and hate everything in it
More examples
- They live in misery, without enough food or clean water.
- His cruel remarks only add to her misery.
- She writes about the miseries of life during the war.
Forms
misery · miseries
miserable adjective — Deeply unhappy or in great discomfort.