misery

The state of suffering and want as a result of physical circumstances or extreme poverty.

Mental or emotional unhappiness or distress.

A cause or source of suffering.

A physical ache or ailment.

See misére.

A state of grievous affliction or unhappiness; mental or physical suffering; wretchedness.

Any afflictive or depressed condition; want of the means of livelihood; destitution: as, the burning of the factory caused much misery among the poor.

A seated pain or ache; an acute local ailment: as, to have a misery in the teeth, or a misery in the side or back.

That which makes miserable; a cause or source of affliction; misfortune; calamity: generally in the plural.