Unhappiness, infelicity, misery.

Wretchedness, misery; an instance of this. Also: poverty, want, indigence.

Unhappiness, misery; misfortune, ill luck.

Sorrow, distress, misery, woe. Now rare (poetic).

= wretchedness, n. 1.

Misery, distress, hardship; adversity, poverty.

A state or condition of misery, suffering, or emotional distress; misfortune, trouble. Chiefly poetic and literary. Now also in humorous or…

Misery, woe.

Misery; distress; baseness.

wretchedness, misery.

Opposed to boot (Middle English bote) ‘relief, remedy,’ and bete vb. ‘to relieve, mend.’ So in Icelandic, böl og bót ‘bale and boot,’ bölva bætr…

Unhappiness, misery. Cf. unsele, n. 1a.

misery.

Unhappiness.

The state or condition of being a wretch or wretched person; wretchedness, misery.

The condition of being cursed or under a curse; damnation; misery.

misery.

Affliction or calamity; deep distress, misery.

Wretchedness; misery; a cause or source of distress.

A condition of great affliction, oppression, or misery; ‘persecution; distress; vexation; disturbance of life’ (Johnson).

A condition of discomfort or distress caused by privation, poverty, misfortune, adversity, or the like; great misery or unhappiness.

Wretchedness, misery.

Wretchedness, affliction; abasement, humiliation, shame. Obsolete.

Unhappiness.

The state of being unhappy or unfortunate; an unhappy condition or state of affairs; unhappiness, misery; bad fortune, ill luck, misfortune.

Wretchedness, misery.

Displeasure, discomfort, unhappiness. Obsolete.

Grievous state; affliction, misery. Obsolete.

Sadness.

Unhappiness; distress.

Wretchedness, misery.

Deplorable condition, misery. Obsolete. rare.

Wretchedness, misery.

A state or condition of distress, sorrow, or misfortune; misery, wretchedness; sadness. Also: the quality of expressing or causing woe.

Great sorrow or mental distress; a miserable or wretched state of mind; a condition characterized by a feeling of extreme unhappiness.

Wretched or miserable circumstances, hardship, privation; misery.

unhappiness, unfortunateness.

= unwealsomeness, n.

Tribulation.

The quality or condition of being miserable; wretchedness, miserable unhappiness. Also: a state or cause of misery or distress.

In extended and weakened senses. Misery or suffering, of various degrees of severity; mental discomfort; an experience of this; the action or an act…

The state or quality of being desolate; desertedness, dismal barrenness; cheerlessness, dreary misery.

Lack of bliss; unhappiness.

The condition of being unhappy in mind.

= misery, n.

figurative with various notions: Gloom, unhappiness; a temporary interruption of friendship; something that obscures the lustre of a reputation.

In figurative uses.

Misery.