misery

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  1. noun The state of suffering and want as a result of physical circumstances or extreme poverty.
  2. noun Mental or emotional unhappiness or distress: "Our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions, and not on our circumstances” (Martha Washington).
  3. noun A cause or source of suffering.
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  • Presiding over all this misery is the monolithic Sphinx Corporation, and, as the movie opens, an investigator, a family man named William (underplayed to the point of somnolence by Tim Robbins), is dispatched from Seattle to the Shanghai office of the corporation's insurance agency to find out who, if anyone, on the inside is involved in the issuing of false papelles. —  MFSF,January2005
  • Then join a security company, where your misery is the industry's opportunity to protect intellectual property. —  ZDNET.com.au
  • Further misery is anticipated for flood victims, as the sheer number of claims being made will take a long time to process. —  The Latest From www.inthenews.co.uk
  • Adding to the misery was the condition of educational institutions. —  Zee News : India National
  • "Now all my misery is about to commence," cried Courtenay, as he took his seat at the gun-room table, on which the dinner was smoking in all the variety of pea-soup, Irish stew, and boiled mutton with caper sauce Indeed!" —  The King's Own
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sorrow ·  suffer ·  horror ·  woe ·  poverty ·  shame ·  distress ·  misfortune ·  loneliness ·  cruelty ·  torture ·  danger

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misery:   miseries
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Middle English miserie, from Old French, from Latin miseria, from miser, wretched.

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  1. from Middle English miserie, from Old French miserie, misere, French misère = Spanish Portuguese Italian miseria, from Latin miseria, wretchedness, from miser, wretched: see miser.
 

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