miseries
SayMIZ-uh-reezUS/ˈmɪz(ə)ɹiz/UK/ˈmɪz(ə)ɹɪz/
- 1Plural of misery.
His diary recorded the daily miseries of life in the labor camp.
He spent years trying to forget the miseries of his childhood.
Note
A plural that only appears where misery can be counted. As a mass noun it names suffering in general. Pluralized, it moves toward the countable meanings: separate hardships, or the calamities and misfortunes that cause distress, as in the daily miseries of camp life. In British and American dialect, where a misery can be a bodily ache, miseries can simply mean aches and pains.
miseries is a form of misery
misery, noun: Great unhappiness, or extreme pain of body or mind; deep distress or wretchedness. Full entry
- Forms
- miserymiseries plural
- Spelling
- misery → miseries: change y to i, add -es
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