Misery vs. Ecstasy
Miserynoun
Great unhappiness; extreme pain of body or mind; wretchedness; distress; woe.
‘Ever since his wife left him you can see the misery on his face.’;
Ecstasynoun
Intense pleasure.
Miserynoun
A bodily ache or pain.
Ecstasynoun
A state of emotion so intense that a person is carried beyond rational thought and self-control.
Miserynoun
Cause of misery; calamity; misfortune.
Ecstasynoun
A trance, frenzy, or rapture associated with mystic or prophetic exaltation.
Miserynoun
(Extreme) poverty.
Ecstasynoun
(obsolete) Violent emotion or distraction of mind; excessive grief from anxiety; insanity; madness.
Miserynoun
(archaic) greed; avarice.
Ecstasynoun
(slang) The drug MDMA, a synthetic entactogen of the methylenedioxyphenethylamine family, especially in a tablet form.
Miserynoun
Great unhappiness; extreme pain of body or mind; wretchedness; distress; woe.
‘Destruction and misery are in their ways.’;
Ecstasynoun
A state in which sensibility, voluntary motion, and (largely) mental power are suspended; the body is erect and inflexible; but the pulse and breathing are not affected.
Miserynoun
Cause of misery; calamity; misfortune.
‘When we our betters see bearing our woes,We scarcely think our miseries our foes.’;
Ecstasyverb
(intransitive) To experience intense pleasure.
Miserynoun
Covetousness; niggardliness; avarice.
Ecstasyverb
(transitive) To cause intense pleasure in.
Miserynoun
a state of ill-being due to affliction or misfortune;
‘the misery and wretchedness of those slums is intolerable’;
Ecstasynoun
The state of being beside one's self or rapt out of one's self; a state in which the mind is elevated above the reach of ordinary impressions, as when under the influence of overpowering emotion; an extraordinary elevation of the spirit, as when the soul, unconscious of sensible objects, is supposed to contemplate heavenly mysteries.
‘Like a mad prophet in an ecstasy.’; ‘This is the very ecstasy of love.’;
Miserynoun
a feeling of intense unhappiness;
‘she was exhausted by her misery and grief’;
Ecstasynoun
Excessive and overmastering joy or enthusiasm; rapture; enthusiastic delight.
‘He on the tender grassWould sit, and hearken even to ecstasy.’;
Miserynoun
a state or feeling of great physical or mental distress or discomfort
‘the misery of the miner's existence’; ‘a man who had brought her nothing but misery’;
Ecstasynoun
Violent distraction of mind; violent emotion; excessive grief of anxiety; insanity; madness.
‘That unmatched form and feature of blown youthBlasted with ecstasy.’; ‘Our words will but increase his ecstasy.’;
Miserynoun
a cause or source of great distress or discomfort
‘the miseries of war’;
Ecstasynoun
A state which consists in total suspension of sensibility, of voluntary motion, and largely of mental power. The body is erect and inflexible; the pulsation and breathing are not affected.
Miserynoun
a person who is constantly miserable or discontented
‘have we really been such a bunch of miseries to work with?’;
Ecstasyverb
To fill ecstasy, or with rapture or enthusiasm.
‘The most ecstasied order of holy . . . spirits.’;
Ecstasynoun
a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion;
‘listening to sweet music in a perfect rapture’;
Ecstasynoun
a state of elated bliss
Ecstasynoun
street names for methylenedioxymethamphetamine
