miserableness

1. 1.

   a state of ill-being due to affliction or misfortune

   “the misery and wretchedness of those slums is intolerable”

   Synonymsmiserywretchedness

   Broaderill-being

   Narrowerconcentration campliving deathsuffering

Other forms of miserableness

plural

miserablenesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about miserableness

What does miserableness mean?

miserableness means "a state of ill-being due to affliction or misfortune".

How many syllables are in miserableness?

miserableness has 5 syllables: mi-se-ra-ble-ness. The stress falls on "ra".

What is another word for miserableness?

Close synonyms include misery, wretchedness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is miserableness a common word?

miserableness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.