Miseryとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈmɪz(ə)ɹɪ/
• (General American) enPR: mĭzʹə-rē, mĭzʹrē, IPA: /ˈmɪz(ə)ɹi/
• ハイフネーション: mis‧ery

名詞

misery (countable and uncountable, plural miseries)

1. Great unhappiness; extreme pain of body or mind; wretchedness; distress; woe.

   Synonyms: dejection, grief, sorrow; see also Thesaurus:sadness

   Ever since his wife left him you can see the misery on his face.

   • 1578–1579, Edmund Spenser, “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:

     For miſerie doth braueſt mindes abate, / And make them ſeeke for that they wont to ſcorne, / Of fortune and of hope at once forlorne.

   • 2008, Charlotte Bingham, The Land of Summer‎:

     It was not just the confusion that unhappiness brings, it was not just the loneliness, it was the despair that accompanies all those emotions that turns unhappiness into utter misery.

   • 2022 January 12, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Unhappy start to 2022”, in RAIL, number 948, page 3:

     Then, in January, a creeping tsunami of train cancellations, triggered by major staff absences as a result of the aggressive transmissibility of Omicron, heaped further misery on rail users.

2. (US and UK, dialects) A bodily ache or pain.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pain

   • 1868, John Vestal Hadley, Seven Months a Prisoner, page 15:

     [...] and I had a misery in my left breast and shoulder. I was hurt, but knew not how or how much.

3. Cause of misery; calamity; misfortune.

   Synonyms: adversity, woe; see also Thesaurus:woe

4. (Extreme) poverty.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:poverty

   • 1593, anonymous author, The Life and Death of Iacke Straw […], Act I:

     The Widdow that hath but a pan of braſſe, […]
     Muſt pay her Landlord many a groat,
     Or twil be puld out of her throat: […]
     The rich haue all, the poore liue in miſerie: […]

5. (archaic) greed; avarice.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:greed

派生語

関連する語

• commiserate
• miser
• miserable

アナグラム

• Myries