Misery vs Despair - What's the difference?
misery | despair |
Great unhappiness; extreme pain of body or mind; wretchedness; distress; woe.
Cause of misery; calamity; misfortune.
(Extreme) poverty.
Greed; avarice.
(obsolete) To give up as beyond hope or expectation; to despair of.
* Milton
(obsolete) To cause to despair.
To be hopeless; to have no hope; to give up all hope or expectation.
* Bible, 2 Corinthians i. 8
Loss of hope; utter hopelessness; complete despondency.
That which is despaired of.
As nouns the difference between misery and despair
is that misery is great unhappiness; extreme pain of body or mind; wretchedness; distress; woe while despair is loss of hope; utter hopelessness; complete despondency.As a verb despair is
to give up as beyond hope or expectation; to despair of.misery
English
Noun
(miseries)- Ever since his wife left him you can see the misery on his face .
Synonyms
* seeDerived terms
* put out of one's miserydespair
English
Verb
(en verb)- I would not despair the greatest design that could be attempted.
- We despaired even of life.
Noun
- He turned around in despair , aware that he was not going to survive