Misery

[miz-uh-ree] /ˈmɪz ə ri/

noun, plural miseries.
1.
wretchedness of condition or circumstances.
2.
distress or suffering caused by need, privation, or poverty.
3.
great mental or emotional distress; extreme unhappiness.
4.
a cause or source of distress.
5.
Older Use.

/ˈmɪzərɪ/
noun (pl) -eries
1.
intense unhappiness, discomfort, or suffering; wretchedness
2.
a cause of such unhappiness, discomfort, etc
3.
squalid or poverty-stricken conditions
4.
(Brit, informal) a person who is habitually depressed: he is such a misery
5.
(dialect) a pain or ailment
n.

late 14c., “condition of external unhappiness,” from Old French misere “miserable situation, misfortune, distress” (12c.), from Latin miseria “wretchedness,” from miser (see miser). Meaning “condition of one in great sorrow or mental distress” is from 1530s. Meaning “bodily pain” is 1825, American English.
In addition to the idiom beginning with misery

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