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- pronunciation:
- mI
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- features:
- Word Combinations (noun), Word Explorer, Word Parts
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miseries |
| definition 1: |
great unhappiness; extreme emotional distress.
- synonyms:
- anguish, woe, wretchedness
- antonyms:
- bliss, ecstasy, elation, gaiety, heaven, joy
- similar words:
- affliction, agony, calamity, dejection, desolation, despondency, distress, heartache, mourning, suffering, torment
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| definition 2: |
a state of need and suffering caused by poverty, illness, or other misfortune.
living in misery- synonyms:
- adversity, distress, need, poverty, suffering, tribulation, want
- antonyms:
- comfort, contentment, ease
- similar words:
- affliction, destitution, hardship, ill, misfortune, pain, sorrow, trouble
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| definition 3: |
a source of such unhappiness or suffering.
She was a misery to him.- synonyms:
- cross, sorrow, trial, tribulation
- antonyms:
- joy
- similar words:
- affliction, burden, evil, grief, load, misfortune, torment, trouble
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| related words: |
ache, anguish, discomfort, grief, ordeal, torture, travail, tribulation, woe |
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