misery.

Intense unhappiness, suffering, or severely uncomfortable conditions.

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Words that belong together

• abject misery
• winter misery

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The damp cold added to their misery.

Usage notes

Primary category: literary / elevated general. Forms: Usually uncountable; no ordinary plural in this sense. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Commonness: moderately common.