ETYM Old Eng. destresse, distresse, Old Fren. destresse, destrece, French détresse, Old Fren. destrecier to distress, (assumed) Late Lat. districtiare, from Latin districtus, p. p. of distringere. Related to Distrain, Stress.
(Irregular plural: distresses).
1. A strong feeling of anxiety; SYN. worry, trouble.
2. Psychological suffering; SYN. hurt, suffering.
3. The seizure and holding of property as security for payment of a debt or satisfaction of a claim; SYN. distraint. + prikaži više

ETYM Old Eng. miserie, Latin miseria, from miser wretched: cf. French misčre, Old Fren. also, miserie.
1. A feeling of intense unhappiness.
2. A state of ill-being due to affliction or misfortune; SYN. wretchedness.

The quality or state of being squalid

State characterized by emotions ranging from mild discontentment to deep grief.

Misery, woefulness, poverty; contemptibleness, meanness

ETYM Latin abjectus, p. p. of abjicere to throw away; ab + jacere to throw. Related to Jet a shooting forth.
1. Most unfortunate or miserable.
2. Of the most contemptible kind; SYN. low, low-down, miserable, scummy, scurvy.
3. Showing humiliation or submissiveness.
4. Showing utter resignation or hopelessness; SYN. resigned, unhopeful.
Humble; miserable; craven. + prikaži više

ETYM Latin Calamitosus; cf. French calamiteux.
1. Suffering calamity; wretched; miserable.
2. Producing, or attended with distress and misery; making wretched; wretched; unhappy. SYN. Miserable; deplorable; distressful; afflictive; grievous; baleful; disastrous.

ETYM French misérable, Latin miserabilis, from miserari to lament, pity, from miser wretched. Related to Miser.
1. Characterized by physical misery; SYN. wretched.
2. Very unhappy; full of misery; SYN. suffering, wretched.

1. Full of woe; grievous
2. Involving or bringing woe
3. Lamentably bad or serious; deplorable

1. Very miserable; sunk in, or accompanied by, deep affliction or distress, as from want, anxiety, or grief.
2. Worthless; paltry; very poor or mean; miserable.
3. Hatefully contemptible; despicable; wicked.

Disastrously; producing a calamity.

In a miserable manner.

Sorrowfully, unhappily, wretchedly, despondently; tragically; pitiably

In a wretched manner.