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squalor - 4 thesaurus results
Main Entry: squalor
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: filth, poverty
Synonyms: decay, destitution, indigence, poorness, starvation, wretchedness, dirtiness, foulness, grunginess, impoverishment, seediness
Main Entry: misery
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: pain, mental or physical
Synonyms: ache, agony, anguish, bad news*, blues*, depression, desolation, despair, despondency, discomfort, distress, dolor, gloom, grief, hardship, headache, heartache, melancholy, pang, passion, sadness, sorrow, squalor, stitch, suffering, throe, torment, torture, twinge, unhappiness, woe, worry, wretchedness, anvil chorus, hurting, worriment
Antonyms: cheer, delight, fun, gladness, happiness, joy, pleasure
* = informal/non-formal usage
Main Entry: vice
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: bad habit; sin
Synonyms: corruption, debasement, debauchery, decay, degeneracy, depravity, evil, ill, indecency, iniquity, lechery, lewdness, lust, offense, perversion, rot, squalor, transgression, trespass, venality, wickedness, wrong, carnality, evildoing, immorality, libidinousness, licentiousness, looseness, lubricity, maleficence, malignance, profligacy, sensuality
Notes: a vice is a harmful or nasty habit or action; a vise is a heavy clamp with jaws opened and shut by a lever or screw
Antonyms: propriety, virtue, good point
Main Entry: misery
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: trouble, disaster
Synonyms: adversity, affliction, anxiety, bitter pill, burden, calamity, catastrophe, curse, destitution, difficulty, grief, indigence, load, misfortune, need, ordeal, penury, poverty, privation, problem, sorrow, squalor, trial, tribulation, want, woe, sordidness
Antonyms: advantage, benefit, blessing, boon, good luck, good fortune
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