misery

English

misery (countable and uncountable, plural miseries)

great unhappiness; extreme pain of body or mind; wretchedness; distress; woe
Ever since his wife left him you can see the misery on his face.
- 1578–1579, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], “Prosopopoia. Or Mother Hubberds Tale. [...] Dedicated to the Right Honorable the Ladie Compton and Mountegle”, in Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. Whereof the Next Page Maketh Mention‎, London: Imprinted for VVilliam Ponsonbie, dwelling in Paules Churchyard at the signe of the Bishops head, published 1591, OCLC 84758486:
  For miſerie doth braueſt mindes abate, / And make them ſeeke for that they wont to ſcorne, / Of fortune and of hope at once forlorne.
Cause of misery; calamity; misfortune.
(extreme) poverty.
(archaic) greed; avarice

great unhappiness

Belarusian: няшчасце f (njaščascje), бяда f (bjadá), гора n (hóra)
Bulgarian: нещастие (bg) n (neštástie), страдание (bg) n (stradánie)
Catalan: misèria (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 苦難 (zh), 苦难 (zh) (kǔnàn), 痛苦 (zh) (tòngkǔ), 悲慘 (zh), 悲惨 (zh) (bēicǎn), 不幸 (zh) (bùxìng), 苦痛 (zh) (kǔtòng)
Czech: neštěstí (cs) n, bída (cs) f
Danish: elendighed
Dutch: ellende (nl) f
Esperanto: mizero (eo)
Finnish: kärsimys (fi)
French: misère (fr)
Galician: laceira f, miseria f
Georgian: უბედურება (ubedureba), წვალება (c̣valeba), წამება (c̣ameba), ტანჯვა (ṭanǯva), გასაჭირი (gasač̣iri), გაჭირვება (gač̣irveba)
German: Misere (de) f, Elend (de) n
Greek:
Ancient: πῆμα n (pêma)
Hausa: uƙuba
Ido: mizero (io)

Irish: aimléis f
Italian: miseria (it)
Japanese: 悲惨 (ja) (ひさん, hisan), 苦痛 (ja) (くつう, kutsū), 惨めさ (みじめさ, mijimesa)
Luxembourgish: Misär m
Macedonian: несреќа f (nesréḱa)
Polish: nieszczęście (pl) n, męka (pl) f
Portuguese: miséria (pt)
Romanian: mizerie (ro) f
Russian: несча́стье (ru) n (nesčástʹje), го́ре (ru) n (góre), му́ка (ru) f (múka), страда́ние (ru) n (stradánije), беда́ (ru) f (bedá)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: јад m, беда f

Roman: jad (sh) m, beda (sh) f
Slovak: nešťastie n, bieda f
Slovene: beda f, nesreča (sl) f
Spanish: miseria (es) f
Swedish: misär (sv), elände (sv) n
Ukrainian: нещастя (uk) n (neščástja), біда (uk) f (bidá), горе n (hóre)

cause of misery, misfortune

poverty

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