Misery and Stress

Misery

Misery noun - A situation or state that causes great suffering and unhappiness.

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Stress and misery are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Stress" instead a noun "Misery".

Nearby Words: miserable, miser

Stress noun - The burden on one's emotional or mental well-being created by demands on one's time.

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Misery and stress are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Misery" instead a noun "Stress".

Nearby Words: stressed, stressful, stressing

emotional	emotional misery	emotional stress
pure	pure misery	pure stress
considerable	considerable misery	considerable stress
sheer	sheer misery	sheer stress
Other adjectives: unbearable, poor, constant, collective, extreme, novel, personal, internal, major, general, extra, tremendous.

Similarly, O'Brien is often so vile and petty she seems to be good for nothing except as someone to spread stress and misery among the cast, and then something like her devotion and care for Lady Cora will pop up and crap, there goes that budding love-to-hate villain.

Source: Pet The Dog / Live-Action TV
With years of repressed anger, guilt, fear and misery starting to boil over with the added stress of her parent's death and her own coronation, one argument with her sister is all it takes for her to red-shift to Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds territory.

Source: Stoic Woobie
Under considerable stress and Sanity Slippage, Talyn starts torturing Crais via their neural link, resulting in hideous sores growing on Crais's body as he screams at Crichton to put him out of his misery.

Source: Cold-Blooded Torture

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