Misery - definition, pronunciation, transcription

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Amer.  |ˈmɪzərɪ|  American pronunciation of the word misery
Brit.  |ˈmɪz(ə)rɪ|  British pronunciation of the word misery

noun

- a state of ill-being due to affliction or misfortune
the misery and wretchedness of those slums is intolerable
- a feeling of intense unhappiness
she was exhausted by her misery and grief

Extra examples

The war brought misery to thousands of refugees.

They were living in overcrowded slums in conditions of great misery.

The last years of her life were a misery.

Stop being such a misery.

It was sheer misery living there.

What we are witnessing here is human misery on a vast scale.

She looked away so that Tom wouldn't see her misery.

His face was a picture of sheer misery.

The news plunged him into abject misery.

Don't be such a misery.

What's the matter with you, misery guts (=a name for someone like this)?

The pain and misery are impossible to forget.

...with considerable bile, the author recounts a childhood filled with misery and loneliness...

They live in abject misery.

...like all sublunary things, this misery will one day end...

Word forms

noun
singular: misery
plural: miseries
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