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All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
Blaise Pascal

Meaning of "miseries" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF MISERIES

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MISERIES

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Miseries is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MISERIES

miser
miserabilism
miserabilist
miserable
miserableness
miserablism
miserablist
miserably
miserere
misericord
misericorde
miserliness
miserly
misery
misery guts
misery memoir
misesteem
misestimate
misestimation
misevaluation

WORDS THAT END LIKE MISERIES

A series
accessories
arteries
bakeries
batteries
breweries
cemeteries
deliveries
discoveries
fisheries
galleries
groceries
lotteries
mysteries
nurseries
queries
series
surgeries
time series
wineries
World Series

Synonyms and antonyms of miseries in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «MISERIES»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «miseries» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of miseries

Translation of «miseries» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MISERIES

Find out the translation of miseries to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of miseries from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «miseries» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

苦难
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

miserias
570 millions of speakers

English

miseries
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

दुख
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

مآسي
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

несчастья
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

misérias
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

দুর্দশার
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

misères
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kesengsaraan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Elend
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

苦難
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

불행
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Kasangsaran
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

khổ đau
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கவலைகளை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

दुःख
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

çektirmek
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

miserie
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

niedole
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

нещастя
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

mizeriile
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αθλιότητες
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

omswerwinge
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

elände
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

elendighet
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of miseries

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MISERIES»

The term «miseries» is regularly used and occupies the 83.612 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «MISERIES» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «miseries» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «miseries» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about miseries

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10 QUOTES WITH «MISERIES»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word miseries.
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Victoria Abril
People love coming on television, even if they have to show their miseries.
2
Benazir Bhutto
Right now, they feel they have lost their voice, and their miseries have increased since my departure.
3
William Samuel Johnson
Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable.
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Rudyard Kipling
Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets.
5
Philip Massinger
To doubt is worse than to have lost; and to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us.
6
Oscar Niemeyer
Humanity needs dreams to be able to survive the miseries of daily existence, even if only for an instant.
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Blaise Pascal
All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
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Albert Schweitzer
There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
9
Tom Shales
Television's escapist programming naturally continues to endorse living beyond one's means as the time-tested American Way and rarely depicts families or individuals wracked by the pressures and miseries that come with excess.
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Swami Vivekananda
If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MISERIES»

Discover the use of miseries in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to miseries and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Splendors and Miseries of the Brain: Love, Creativity, and ...
Splendors and Miseries of the Brain examines the elegant and efficient machinery of the brain, showing that by studying music, art, literature, and love, we can reach important conclusions about how the brain functions. discusses creativity ...
Semir Zeki, 2011
2
Bride's Little Miseries
What a great gift for the bride drowning in pre-wedding madness!
Harriet Ziefert, 2006
3
'Six Hundred Miseries': The Seventeenth Century Womb : Book ...
This is one of the first textbooks of obstetrics and gynaecology ever to be translated from Latin into English.
John Lloyd Burton, 2005
4
Life's Little Miseries: Helping Your Child with the ...
Guide to handling the everyday concerns of children ages three to twelve shows how to see problems from the child's viewpoint and offers possible solutions
Diane Lynch-Fraser, 1992
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Emma Corbett: Or, the Miseries of Civil War
This powerful epistolary novel was a transatlantic best-seller, in part because both sides of the conflict are fully represented—as are the miseries and terrible costs of war.
Samuel Jackson Pratt, Eve Tavor Bannet, 2011
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An antidote [by H.Corp] to The miseries of human life [by ...
White all the preceding writers (authors of Miseries, More Miseries, ftc.) have prosecuted wic subject of " Miseries" with attempts at wit and plea- rfwntry, this author endeavours to give a serious turn to the whole discussion, itmt to prove, in an ...
Harriet Corp, James Beresford, Placid (widow.), 1808
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An exposure of the arts and miseries of gambling. ... Fourth ...
Jonathan Harrington GREENE. Deceptions used in Various Games.—Poker.-An Incident. ber A very genteel-looking young man very politely asked me if I would not like to take a hand, as they were only killing time, by amusing themselves in ...
Jonathan Harrington GREENE, 1847
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New York by Gas-light and Other Urban Sketches
teries and Miseries of New York, and, on the American side alone, similarly titled works set in Philadelphia, Cincinnati, St. Louis, New Orleans, and San Francisco. Even smaller industrial cities, such as Lowell, Worcester, Springfield, and Troy ...
George G. Foster, Stuart M Blumin, 1990
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The Miseries of England, from the Growing Power of Her ...
CI) THE Miseries. of England; From theGrowing P O W E R Of her DOMESTICK Enemies.. L'B Io N'disclose thy drowsy Eyes, and' see The Bandage that ful- rounds thy Liberty; Put on thy mourning- Weeds, prepare to groan Beneath that Fate ...
England, 1702
10
Pregnancy's Little Miseries
With its sympathetic perspective and humorous drawings, this delightful gift book will help those who are pregnant laugh about the small trials endured over nine months—strange food cravings, maternity clothes shopping, labor horror ...
Harriet Ziefert, 2006

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MISERIES»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term miseries is used in the context of the following news items.
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Govt extends subvention scheme for current fiscal
Wide-scale dry spell in central and southern India is the latest in a series of miseries for farmers, who were already struggling to recover from ... «Financial Express, Jul 15»
2
Black Books' Dylan Moran Off the Hook: life and death stand-up at …
The Irish comedian's two-hour set, including intermission, is a hilariously dishevelled discourse on the miseries of a middle-aged man. Moran ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Jul 15»
3
Centre County jail earns praise from Prison Society reps
The society was co-founded by Benjamin Franklin in 1787 as the Philadelphia Society for the Alleviation of Miseries of Public Prisons, she said. «Centre Daily Times, Jul 15»
4
Kashmiri teen poet imagines world without oppression in his verses
I felt it was my duty to portray the miseries faced by the community," he points out. Ghalib and Allama Iqbal influence his verses. One of the most ... «I am in dna of India, Jul 15»
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History lessons
It seems our existing system has become outdated and rather than helping the state it is adding more miseries. One such instance is of Saulat ... «The News International, Jul 15»
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Dams to protect us
It is suggested that the government should arrange for all those politicians opposing big dams to personally witness the miseries of flood-hit ... «The News International, Jul 15»
7
Indian actor criticizes Modi for 'focusing on selfies and ignoring …
... has criticized Modi-led central government in India for failing to take measures ahead of torrential rains to prevent citizens from miseries. «ARY NEWS, Jul 15»
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Damaging of vehicles, houses by police in Srinagar denounced
“Mufti Sayeed is only concerned with his chair and has nothing to do with the miseries of the Jammu Muslims,” it stated. However, the statement ... «Kashmir Media Service, Jul 15»
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Fernando Alonso expecting different McLaren in second half of 2015
Fernando Alonso is still doing his best to keep McLaren's - and his own - spirits up, saying that despite the team's ongoing miseries, he is ... «Sport360°, Jul 15»
10
Bangladesh vs South Africa 1st Test: Mustafizur Rahman Shines on …
Hossain too added to the miseries of the Proteas as he also claimed three wickets by giving away just 53 runs in his 14 overs. None of the ... «International Business Times, India Edition, Jul 15»

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