misery

Nouns

  • (n) a state of ill-being due to affliction or misfortune
    • the misery and wretchedness of those slums is intolerable
    miserableness, wretchedness,
  • (n) a feeling of intense unhappiness
    • she was exhausted by her misery and grief

Synonyms

miserableness wretchedness

Words of close approximity

miser