misery Definition

misery
noun miseries

1. Great unhappiness or suffering.

Thesaurus: distress, agony, suffering, affliction, anguish, despair, pain, sorrow, woe, grief, torment, torture.
2. A cause of unhappiness.

Example: His biggest misery is the cold
Thesaurus: trouble, adversity, hardship, trial.
3. Poverty or squalor.

Example: living in misery
4. colloq
A habitually sad or bad-tempered person.
Example: Don't be such a misery

Idiom: put someone or something out of their misery

To relieve them from their physical suffering or their mental anguish.

To kill (an animal that is in great pain).

Etymology: 14c: from French miserie, from Latin miseria.