| misery | | |
| n. (state) | 1. miserableness, misery, wretchedness | a state of ill-being due to affliction or misfortune.; "the misery and wretchedness of those slums is intolerable" |
| ~ ill-being | lack of prosperity or happiness or health. |
| ~ concentration camp | a situation characterized by crowding and extremely harsh conditions. |
| ~ living death | a state of constant misery. |
| ~ woe, suffering | misery resulting from affliction. |
| n. (feeling) | 2. misery | a feeling of intense unhappiness.; "she was exhausted by her misery and grief" |
| ~ sadness, unhappiness | emotions experienced when not in a state of well-being. |
| misfortune | | |
| n. (event) | 1. bad luck, misfortune | unnecessary and unforeseen trouble resulting from an unfortunate event. |
| ~ trouble | an event causing distress or pain.; "what is the trouble?"; "heart trouble" |
| ~ pity, shame | an unfortunate development.; "it's a pity he couldn't do it" |
| ~ misadventure, mischance, mishap | an instance of misfortune. |
| ~ calamity, catastrophe, tragedy, cataclysm, disaster | an event resulting in great loss and misfortune.; "the whole city was affected by the irremediable calamity"; "the earthquake was a disaster" |
| ~ adversity | a stroke of ill fortune; a calamitous event.; "a period marked by adversities" |
| ~ hardship | something that causes or entails suffering.; "I cannot think it a hardship that more indulgence is allowed to men than to women"; "the many hardships of frontier life" |
| ~ knock | a bad experience.; "the school of hard knocks" |
| n. (state) | 2. bad luck, ill luck, misfortune, tough luck | an unfortunate state resulting from unfavorable outcomes. |
| ~ circumstances, luck, destiny, fate, fortune, lot, portion | your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you).; "whatever my fortune may be"; "deserved a better fate"; "has a happy lot"; "the luck of the Irish"; "a victim of circumstances"; "success that was her portion" |
| ~ weakness | the condition of being financially weak.; "the weakness of the dollar against the yen" |
| ~ adversity, hard knocks, hardship | a state of misfortune or affliction.; "debt-ridden farmers struggling with adversity"; "a life of hardship" |
| ~ gutter, sewer, toilet | misfortune resulting in lost effort or money.; "his career was in the gutter"; "all that work went down the sewer"; "pensions are in the toilet" |
| ~ hard cheese | bad luck. |
| wretchedness | | |
| n. (state) | 1. wretchedness | the character of being uncomfortable and unpleasant.; "the wretchedness for which these prisons became known"; "the grey wretchedness of the rain" |
| ~ discomfort, uncomfortableness | the state of being tense and feeling pain. |
| n. (attribute) | 2. wretchedness | the quality of being poor and inferior and sorry.; "he has compiled a record second to none in its wretchedness" |
| ~ low quality, inferiority | an inferior quality. |
| wretched | | |
| adj. | 1. deplorable, execrable, miserable, woeful, wretched | of very poor quality or condition.; "deplorable housing conditions in the inner city"; "woeful treatment of the accused"; "woeful errors of judgment" |
| ~ inferior | of low or inferior quality. |
| adj. | 2. miserable, wretched | characterized by physical misery.; "a wet miserable weekend"; "spent a wretched night on the floor" |
| ~ uncomfortable | providing or experiencing physical discomfort.; "an uncomfortable chair"; "an uncomfortable day in the hot sun" |
| adj. | 3. miserable, suffering, wretched | very unhappy; full of misery.; "he felt depressed and miserable"; "a message of hope for suffering humanity"; "wretched prisoners huddled in stinking cages" |
| ~ unhappy | experiencing or marked by or causing sadness or sorrow or discontent.; "unhappy over her departure"; "unhappy with her raise"; "after the argument they lapsed into an unhappy silence"; "had an unhappy time at school"; "the unhappy (or sad) news"; "he looks so sad" |
| adj. | 4. despicable, slimy, ugly, unworthy, vile, worthless, wretched | morally reprehensible.; "would do something as despicable as murder"; "ugly crimes"; "the vile development of slavery appalled them"; "a slimy little liar" |
| ~ evil | morally bad or wrong.; "evil purposes"; "an evil influence"; "evil deeds" |
| adj. | 5. hapless, miserable, misfortunate, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor, wretched | deserving or inciting pity.; "a hapless victim"; "miserable victims of war"; "the shabby room struck her as extraordinarily pathetic"; "piteous appeals for help"; "pitiable homeless children"; "a pitiful fate"; "Oh, you poor thing"; "his poor distorted limbs"; "a wretched life" |
| ~ unfortunate | not favored by fortune; marked or accompanied by or resulting in ill fortune.; "an unfortunate turn of events"; "an unfortunate decision"; "unfortunate investments"; "an unfortunate night for all concerned" |
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