Misery vs Dearth - What's the difference?
misery | dearth |
Great unhappiness; extreme pain of body or mind; wretchedness; distress; woe.
Cause of misery; calamity; misfortune.
(Extreme) poverty.
Greed; avarice.
(rfc-sense) A period or condition when food is rare and hence expensive; famine.
(by extension) Scarcity; a lack or short supply.
* 1608 , William Shakespeare, King Lear :
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(obsolete) Dearness; the quality of being rare or costly.
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As nouns the difference between misery and dearth
is that misery is great unhappiness; extreme pain of body or mind; wretchedness; distress; woe while dearth is a period or condition when food is rare and hence expensive; famine.misery
English
Noun
(miseries)- Ever since his wife left him you can see the misery on his face .
Synonyms
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* put out of one's miserydearth
English
Noun
(en noun)- I promise you, the effects he writes of succeed unhappily: as of unnaturalness between the child and the parent; death, dearth , dissolutions of ancient amities; divisions in state, menaces and maledictions against king and nobles; needless diffidences, banishment of friends, dissipation of cohorts, nuptial breaches, and I know not what.
