miserynoun
uk/ˈmɪz.ər.i/us/ˈmɪz.ɚ.i/misery noun (UNHAPPY FEELING)
B2 [ C or U ] great unhappiness:
We have witnessed the most appalling scenes of human misery.
Ten years of marriage to him have made her life a misery.
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- He looked happy for a brief while, before relapsing into silent misery.
- He sat slumped over his desk, the picture of misery.
- Words alone cannot convey the untold misery endured by people in these refugee camps.
- She was worn down by the misery and degradation of prison life.
- I just wanted to end the misery of waiting.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Sadness and regret
- a heavy heart idiom
- be/weigh on your conscience idiom
- bitter
- bring a lump to/have a lump in your throat idiom
- broken-hearted
- gloom
- gloomy
- guilt
- guilt complex
- guilt trip
- guilt-ridden
- guilt trip
- lament
- melancholy
- mourn
- rue the day idiom
- rueful
- sackcloth
- sad
- sadly
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misery noun (UNHAPPY PERSON)
[ S ] UK informal disapproving also misery guts someone who is often very unhappy and is always complaining about things:
Oh come on, don't be such a misery!
Stop being such an old misery guts!
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Unpleasant people in general
- a dog in the manger idiom
- a nasty piece of work idiom
- a tough/hard nut idiom
- a wolf in sheep's clothing idiom
- bad lot
- intruder
- know-all
- know-it-all
- leech
- make sb's skin crawl idiom
- rotter
- runt
- sadist
- scum
- scumbag
- undesirables
- vermin
- villain
- villain of the piece idiom
- viper
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Idiom(s)
misery loves company
put sth out of its misery
put sb out of their misery