miseries
Prolonged emotional agonies
Miseries is the plural of misery—states of great unhappiness, suffering, or distress.
The word covers both emotional anguish and physical hardship: the miseries of war, the miseries of poverty.
Someone might catalog their miseries when complaining: She listed all her miseries—the job, the apartment, the breakup.
Bodily or emotional distress
- anguishIntense mental suffering
- agonyExtreme physical or emotional pain
- tormentSevere prolonged suffering
- distressSevere anxiety or suffering
affliction · ordeal · tribulation · woe · wretchedness · ache · hurt · pangs
Intense sorrow from loss
- sorrowDeep emotional distress
- heartacheDeep emotional distress
- despairTotal absence of hope
- melancholySubdued, lasting sadness
sadness · dejection · gloom · desolation · heartbreak · anguish · woefulness · despondency
Griefs and hardships
- problemsSituations needing resolution
- difficultiesProblems to overcome
- trialsFormal legal proceedings
- burdensWeighty obligations borne
tribulations · setbacks · sorrows · cares · worries · griefs · complaints · grievances
Severe lack of resources
- deprivationState of lacking necessities
- privationLack of necessities
- adversitySevere difficulty or suffering
- destitutionExtreme poverty, lacking necessities
want · scarcity · penury · indigence · squalor · impoverishment · austerity · neediness
pain
Bodily or emotional distress
- anguishIntense mental suffering
- agonyExtreme physical or emotional pain
- tormentSevere prolonged suffering
distress · affliction · ordeal · tribulation · woe · wretchedness · ache · hurt · pangs · throes
grief
Intense sorrow from loss
melancholy · sadness · dejection · gloom · desolation · heartbreak · anguish · woefulness · despondency · bleakness
woes
Griefs and hardships
- problemsSituations needing resolution
- difficultiesProblems to overcome
- trialsFormal legal proceedings
burdens · tribulations · setbacks · sorrows · cares · worries · griefs · complaints · grievances · laments
poverty
Severe lack of resources
- deprivationState of lacking necessities
- privationLack of necessities
- adversitySevere difficulty or suffering
destitution · want · scarcity · penury · indigence · squalor · impoverishment · austerity · neediness · struggle
illness
State of poor health
plague · blight · scourge · epidemic · curse · calamity · pestilence · infirmity · sickness · disability