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A state or feeling of great physical or mental distress or discomfort

A cause or source of great distress or discomfort

A person who is constantly miserable or discontented

A state of financial distress

The quality of evoking a keen sense of sadness or regret

The state of being mentally anxious or perturbed

A person who tends to see the worst aspect of things or believe that the worst will happen

Prolonged cruel or unjust treatment, especially through the exercise of authority

Disagreeable or horrid to have to experience or undergo

A sudden, sharp localized pain

A state of great fear or panic

(pathology) An abnormal condition of a human, animal or plant that causes discomfort or dysfunction

The act or state of degrading or being degraded

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Noun

A state or feeling of great physical or mental distress or discomfort

heartbrokenness

disconsolateness

downheartedness

heavy-heartedness

broken-heartedness

heaviness of heart

dissatisfaction

mental suffering

demoralization^US

demoralisation^UK

emotional suffering

disillusionment

slough of despond

heavyheartedness

dark night of the soul

unconsolability

extreme unhappiness

low-spiritedness

clinical depression

endogenous depression

discontentedness

reactive depression

postnatal depression

one's black dog

mental pressure

mid-life crisis

lack of confidence

lack of enthusiasm

world-weariness

loss of confidence

chip on your shoulder

fit of bad temper

fit of ill temper

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“In doing this, you would save them and yourself from misery and heartaches.”

Noun

A cause or source of great distress or discomfort

reverse of fortune

stroke of bad luck

trials and tribulations

unfortunateness

thorn in the flesh

harsh conditions

thorn in your side

reversal of fortune

pain in the backside

pain in the rear

pain in the neck

pain in the bum

serious accident

fatal attraction

desperate straits

impecuniousness

baptism of fire

painful experience

unpleasant experience

a difficult experience

a frustrating experience

a unpleasant experience

humble beginnings

financial distress

stroke of ill luck

tough situation

albatross around one's neck

tragic state of affairs

pushing poop uphill

up poop creak without a paddle

unfortunate incident

end of the world

day of reckoning

nuclear holocaust

lack of success

devastating blow

rough situation

hell in a handbasket

mutual assured destruction

unfortunate experience

nightmare experience

source of distress

bolt from the blue

kick in the teeth

bolt out of the blue

cause for regret

cause for disappointment

source of regret

unfortunate thing

Day of Judgment

showdown between good and evil

final battleground

total annihilation

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“The misery of the past, the struggles of the present, and the duty for the future, demand that no effort be left untried, that all energy be exercised, and that all opportunity be taken advantage of.”

Noun

A person who is constantly miserable or discontented

dog in the manger

prophet of doom

miserable person

bear with a sore head

stick-in-the-mud

stick in the mud

bad-tempered person

death's head at a feast

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“They said she was a misery because she'd worked the Baby's Room for so long and so many of them died.”

Noun

A state of financial distress

impecuniousness

extreme poverty

financial distress

reduced circumstances

straitened circumstances

life on the breadline

desperate straits

hand-to-mouth existence

primary poverty

narrow circumstances

necessitousness

underdevelopment

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“I vowed to myself that I would never live in such financial misery as my parents had.”

Noun

The quality of evoking a keen sense of sadness or regret

downheartedness

disconsolateness

dissatisfaction

heaviness of heart

heavyheartedness

heavy-heartedness

broken-heartedness

demoralization^US

demoralisation^UK

mental suffering

disillusionment

emotional suffering

discontentedness

slough of despond

low-spiritedness

world-weariness

unconsolability

clinical depression

endogenous depression

mental pressure

reactive depression

postnatal depression

heartbrokenness

one's black dog

chip on your shoulder

apprehensiveness

lack of confidence

lack of enthusiasm

loss of confidence

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Noun

The state of being mentally anxious or perturbed

apprehensiveness

sense of foreboding

butterflies in the stomach

screaming abdabs

discombobulation

screaming habdabs

pins and needles

mistrustfulness

mid-life crisis

emotional strain

nervous excitement

demoralization^US

demoralisation^UK

troublesomeness

nervous tension

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Noun

A person who tends to see the worst aspect of things or believe that the worst will happen

doubting Thomas

prophet of doom

doom and gloom merchant

Job's comforter

spreader of despair and despondency

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Noun

Prolonged cruel or unjust treatment, especially through the exercise of authority

authoritarianism

unreasonableness

harsh discipline

high-handedness

totalitarianism

victimization^US

victimisation^UK

rough treatment

totalitarian government

taking advantage

unfair treatment

indecent assault

domestic violence

undemocratic rule

single party rule

reign of terror

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Noun

Disagreeable or horrid to have to experience or undergo

disagreeableness

objectionableness

distastefulness

unacceptability

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Noun

A sudden, sharp localized pain

painful sensation

painful feeling

muscular contraction

aches and pains

pins and needles

muscle contraction

burning sensation

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Noun

A state of great fear or panic

Noun

(pathology) An abnormal condition of a human, animal or plant that causes discomfort or dysfunction

medical condition

what's going around

health condition

insubstantiality

valetudinarianism

unsubstantiality

contagious disease

unwholesomeness

unhealthfulness

health complaint

learning difficulties

physical disability

learning disability

pathological condition

pneumonic plague

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Noun

The act or state of degrading or being degraded

loss of dignity

loss of self-respect

blow to one's pride

opprobriousness

slap in the face

smack in the face

egg on one's face

disgracefulness

disreputability

dishonorableness

disreputableness

ignominiousness

swallowing one's pride

kick in the teeth

lack of respectability

loss of reputation

blot on the escutcheon

self-consciousness

looking foolish

loss of respect

source of discredit

eating humble pie

self-effacement

naming and shaming

public disgrace

source of shame

skeleton in the closet

bad reflection on

blot on the escutcheon of

skeleton in the cupboard

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