misery
Deep, unrelenting woe
Misery is intense suffering or unhappiness—physical pain, emotional anguish, or wretched living conditions.
The injury caused her constant misery.
A misery can be a specific source of suffering: the miseries of poverty.
In British informal use, a misery is a persistently gloomy or complaining person.
To put someone out of their misery is to end their suffering, literally or figuratively—as when finally giving someone news they've been anxiously awaiting.
Severe prolonged suffering
- agonyExtreme physical or emotional pain
- heartacheDeep emotional distress
- woeGreat sorrow or distress
- sorrowDeep emotional distress
grief · distress · trauma · ache · pang · throe · travail · affliction
Extreme poverty, lacking necessities
- impoverishmentState of extreme deprivation
- penuryExtreme lack of money
- indigenceExtreme poverty, total want
- wantTo desire something
neediness · squalor · scarcity · starvation · hunger · homelessness · deprivation · malnutrition
Bodily or emotional distress
- sufferingSustained experience of distress
- discomfortMild physical or mental distress
- ailmentMinor health problem
- malaiseDiffuse, sourceless discomfort
illness · sickness · agony · torment · affliction · infirmity · chronic pain · disability
Severe difficulty or suffering
- tribulationState of great distress
- ordealDifficult, painful experience
- struggleLabored effort against resistance
- privationLack of necessities
deprivation · suffering · burden · difficulty · trial · trouble · woe · hardship
State of emotional pain
- gloomPervasive dimness or dejection
- melancholySubdued, lasting sadness
- despondencyProfound loss of hope
- downheartednessState of feeling dispirited
glumness · moroseness · heaviness · disheartenment · discouragement · low spirits · blues · doldrums
State without hope
- futilityLack of purpose
- pessimismExpecting unfavorable outcomes
- resignationVoluntary relinquishment of position
- bleaknessQuality of being dreary
defeatism · fatalism · helplessness · desolation · emptiness · nihilism · disillusionment · abandonment
torment
Severe prolonged suffering
sorrow · grief · distress · trauma · ache · pang · throe · travail · affliction · bereavement
destitution
Extreme poverty, lacking necessities
- impoverishmentState of extreme deprivation
- penuryExtreme lack of money
- indigenceExtreme poverty, total want
want · neediness · squalor · scarcity · starvation · hunger · homelessness · deprivation · malnutrition · debt
pain
Bodily or emotional distress
- sufferingSustained experience of distress
- discomfortMild physical or mental distress
- ailmentMinor health problem
malaise · illness · sickness · agony · torment · affliction · infirmity · chronic pain · disability · disease
adversity
Severe difficulty or suffering
- tribulationState of great distress
- ordealDifficult, painful experience
- struggleLabored effort against resistance
privation · deprivation · suffering · burden · difficulty · trial · trouble · woe · hardship · duress
sadness
State of emotional pain
- gloomPervasive dimness or dejection
- melancholySubdued, lasting sadness
- despondencyProfound loss of hope
downheartedness · glumness · moroseness · heaviness · disheartenment · discouragement · low spirits · blues · doldrums · dispiritedness
hopelessness
State without hope
- futilityLack of purpose
- pessimismExpecting unfavorable outcomes
- resignationVoluntary relinquishment of position
bleakness · defeatism · fatalism · helplessness · desolation · emptiness · nihilism · disillusionment · abandonment · apathy
- griefgrief, mourning, bereavement, sorrow, grieving
- hardshiphardship, adversity, difficulty, trouble, struggle
- misfortunesdisaster, catastrophe, tragedy, calamity, misfortune
- sufferingagony, anguish, pain, torment, distress
- Troublesproblem, trouble, issue, setback, snag
- unpleasantnesspain, anger, sadness, disgust, distress
miserycomfort
Ease or soothing relief
luxury · prosperity · ease · well-being · abundance
- put out of one's miseryKill to end suffering
- put someone out of their miseryEnd suffering through death
- Les MiserablesFrench historical novel
- fail miserably
- putting someone out of their miseryEnding suffering through death
- misery pornContent glorifying suffering
miserable, miserably, miser, commiserate, miseries, commiseration, miserableness, commiserating, commiserated