different between misery vs destiny

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French miserie (modern: misère), from Latin miseria, from miser. Doublet of misère.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?m?z(?)??/
• (General American) enPR: m?z??-r?, m?z?r?, IPA^(key): /?m?z(?)?i/
• Hyphenation: mis?ery

Noun

misery (countable and uncountable, plural miseries)

1. Great unhappiness; extreme pain of body or mind; wretchedness; distress; woe.
2. (US and Britain, dialects) A bodily ache or pain.
   • 1868, John Vestal Hadley, Seven Months a Prisoner, page 15:

     [...] and I had a misery in my left breast and shoulder. I was hurt, but knew not how or how much.

3. Cause of misery; calamity; misfortune.
4. (Extreme) poverty.
5. (archaic) greed; avarice.

Synonyms

• see Thesaurus:greed

Derived terms

• put out of one's misery

Related terms

• commiserate
• miser
• miserable

Translations

Anagrams

• Myries

English

Etymology

From Middle English destine et al., from Old French destinee, from Latin d?stin? (English destine).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?d?st?ni/

Noun

destiny (plural destinies)

1. That to which any person or thing is destined; a predetermined state; a condition predestined by the Divine or by human will

   Synonyms: fate, lot

2. That which is inevitable in the fullness of time.
3. The fixed order of things; invincible necessity; an irresistible power or agency conceived of as determining the future, whether in general or of an individual.

   Synonym: fate

Synonyms

• fate
• orlay

Derived terms

• date with destiny

Related terms

• destinate
• destination
• destine

Translations

See also

• doom

See also

• destination

References

• destiny in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• density