In her misery, Mary looked to her husband for help.
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Misery
//ˈmɪz(ə)ɹɪ//
Synonyms for "misery" (193 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (39)
Noun(18 words)
Strong matches (58)
Related words (96)
Noun(43 words)
Related word relations
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3 entriesAntonyms
1 entriesRelated terms
3 entriesat location
1 entriesdbpedia genre
1 entriesderived
12 entriesdesires
1 entrieshas context
3 entrieshas property
1 entriesis a
5 entriesrelated to
24 entriesShowing 16 of 24 words.
Translations
139 translations across 50 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- πῆμα noun (great unhappiness)
Arabic
2 entries- تَعَاسَة noun (great unhappiness)
- شَقَاوَة noun (great unhappiness)
Assamese
2 entries- দুৰ্দশা noun (great unhappiness)
- বিলৈ noun (great unhappiness)
Azerbaijani
4 entries- bəla noun (great unhappiness)
- dərd noun (great unhappiness)
- fəlakət noun (great unhappiness)
- müsibət noun (great unhappiness)
Belarusian
4 entries- бяда́ noun (great unhappiness)
- гале́ча noun (poverty — see also poverty)
- го́ра noun (great unhappiness)
- няшча́сце noun (great unhappiness)
Bulgarian
4 entries- бе́дност noun (poverty — see also poverty)
- несго́да noun (cause of misery, misfortune)
- неща́стие noun (great unhappiness)
- нищета́ noun (poverty — see also poverty)
Catalan
1 entries- misèria noun (great unhappiness)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 不幸 noun (great unhappiness)
- 悲慘 /悲惨 noun (great unhappiness)
- 痛苦 noun (great unhappiness)
- 苦痛 noun (great unhappiness)
Czech
3 entries- bída noun (great unhappiness)
- hoře noun (great unhappiness)
- neštěstí noun (great unhappiness)
Danish
1 entries- elendighed noun (great unhappiness)
Dutch
1 entries- ellende noun (great unhappiness)
Early Assamese
1 entries- বিলাই noun (great unhappiness)
Esperanto
1 entries- mizero noun (great unhappiness)
Finnish
4 entries- ahdinko noun (poverty — see also poverty)
- kova onni noun (cause of misery, misfortune)
- kurjuus noun (great unhappiness)
- kurjuus noun (great unhappiness)
French
1 entries- misère noun (great unhappiness)
Galician
4 entries- laceira noun (great unhappiness)
- laceira noun (poverty — see also poverty)
- mesquindade noun (poverty — see also poverty)
- miseria noun (great unhappiness)
Georgian
4 entries- გასაჭირი noun (great unhappiness)
- გაჭირვება noun (great unhappiness)
- სიღარიბე noun (poverty — see also poverty)
- სიღატაკე noun (poverty — see also poverty)
German
2 entries- Elend noun (great unhappiness)
- Misere noun (great unhappiness)
Greek
1 entries- αθλιότης noun (great unhappiness)
Haitian Creole
1 entries- mizè noun (great unhappiness)
Hausa
1 entries- uƙuba noun (great unhappiness)
Hebrew
1 entries- אומללות noun (great unhappiness)
Hindi
1 entries- दुःख noun (great unhappiness)
Hungarian
1 entries- nyomor noun (great unhappiness)
Ido
1 entries- mizero noun (great unhappiness)
Irish
2 entries- aimléis noun (great unhappiness)
- galar noun (great unhappiness)
Italian
2 entries- accidente noun (cause of misery, misfortune)
- miseria noun (great unhappiness)
Japanese
3 entries- 悲惨 noun (great unhappiness)
- 惨めさ noun (great unhappiness)
- 苦痛 noun (great unhappiness)
Ladino
1 entries- mizerya noun (great unhappiness)
Latin
1 entries- miseria noun (great unhappiness)
Luxembourgish
1 entries- Misär noun (great unhappiness)
Macedonian
1 entries- беда noun (great unhappiness)
Malayalam
2 entries- ദുരിതം noun (great unhappiness)
- ദുരിതം noun (cause of misery, misfortune)
Māori
1 entries- kōtonga noun (great unhappiness)
Occitan
1 entries- misèria noun (great unhappiness)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- شقا noun (great unhappiness)
Plautdietsch
2 entries- Jauma noun (great unhappiness)
- Älent noun (great unhappiness)
Polish
4 entries- bieda noun (poverty — see also poverty)
- męka noun (great unhappiness)
- nieszczęście noun (great unhappiness)
- nieszczęście noun (cause of misery, misfortune)
Portuguese
4 entries- desgraça noun (cause of misery, misfortune)
- indigência noun (poverty — see also poverty)
- miséria noun (great unhappiness)
- miséria noun (cause of misery, misfortune)
Romanian
1 entries- mizerie noun (great unhappiness)
Russian
4 entries- бе́дность noun (poverty — see also poverty)
- беда́ noun (great unhappiness)
- го́ре noun (great unhappiness)
- му́ка noun (great unhappiness)
Sanskrit
1 entries- दुःख noun (great unhappiness)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- bijéda noun (great unhappiness)
- béda noun (great unhappiness)
- jȁd noun (great unhappiness)
- бе́да noun (great unhappiness)
Slovak
2 entries- bieda noun (great unhappiness)
- nešťastie noun (great unhappiness)
Slovene
2 entries- beda noun (great unhappiness)
- nesreča noun (great unhappiness)
Spanish
4 entries- desdicha noun (cause of misery, misfortune)
- desgracia noun (cause of misery, misfortune)
- egestad noun (poverty — see also poverty)
- estrechez noun (poverty — see also poverty)
Swedish
4 entries- armod noun (poverty — see also poverty)
- elände noun (great unhappiness)
- elände noun (poverty — see also poverty)
- misär noun (great unhappiness)
Turkish
2 entries- sefalet noun (great unhappiness)
- sefillik noun (great unhappiness)
Ukrainian
4 entries- бі́дність noun (poverty — see also poverty)
- біда́ noun (great unhappiness)
- го́ре noun (great unhappiness)
- зли́дні noun (poverty — see also poverty)
Urdu
1 entries- دکھ noun (great unhappiness)
Sample sentences
17 total sentences available.
The family lived in the depths of misery.
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This misery resulted from his laziness.
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That landslide produced a lot of misery.
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