OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 14696

misery

/ˈmɪz(ə)ɹɪ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
miseria • sinvivir
Great unhappiness; extreme pain of body or mind; wretchedness; distress; woe.
Ever since his wife left him you can see the misery on his face.
It was not just the confusion that unhappiness brings, it was not just the loneliness, it was the despair that accompanies all those emotions that turns unhappiness into utter mise…
desdicha • desgracia • infortunio
Cause of misery; calamity; misfortune.
egestad • estrechez • indigencia • miseria • penuria
poverty.
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