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What does misery mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word misery? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. great unhappiness; extreme pain of body or mind; wretchedness; distress; woe
  2. Cause of misery; calamity; misfortune.
  3. (extreme) poverty.
  4. (archaic) greed; avarice
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Behind the colourless doors of these homes were people who still live in the misery of abject poverty.
As a stark background, the war-torn Russian populace bitterly voices its utter misery.
Who would wish a life of loveless misery upon a warm-hearted, sensitive young girl?
The abject misery, the clearest glimpse of absolute evil, is almost impossible to describe.
People are having fun in this town, it's not all poverty and abject misery.
I walked on, feeling sick to the stomach as I saw so much misery and ruination.

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