misère

• misere

Borrowed from French misère. Doublet of misery and mizeria.

• IPA^(key): /mɪˈzɛə(ɹ)/, /miːˈzɛə(ɹ)/
• Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)

misère (usually uncountable, plural misères)

1. (card games, especially whist) A bid to lose every trick, or the majority of tricks, with no trumps.
   • 1895, Barry Pain, Jerome Klapka Jerome (contributors), To-Day, A Weekly Magazine-Journal‎^[1], volume 9, number 105, page 248:

     The exasperating frequency of hands where one card alone, such as a king or ace, supported by a deuce only, or king or ace bare, debars the holder from calling misère is an experience common to every player.

misère (not comparable)

1. Played according to the reverse of the usual winning convention.

   A strategy in misère backgammon is to put six blots in a row.

2. Of a game, in which a player who is unable to move wins.

• miser

• Meiser, Siemer, Eimers, Meiers, remise, misree

Borrowed from French misère.

• IPA^(key): /miˈsɛːr(ə)/

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• Hyphenation: mi‧sè‧re
• Rhymes: -ɛːrə

misère f or m (plural misères, no diminutive)

1. misery

Borrowed from Latin miseria.

• IPA^(key): /mi.zɛʁ/
• (Quebec) IPA^(key): /mi.zaɛ̯ʁ/

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misère f (plural misères)

1. misery
2. poverty

   Il a vécu pendant longtemps dans la misère.

   He lived in poverty for a long time.

3. A trifle, a thing of little value and importance.

• avoir de la misère
• chercher misère
• faire des misères
• misère noire
• salaire de misère

• → German: Misere
• → Haitian Creole: mizè
• → Swedish: misär

misère

1. dear me! dear Lord! oh boy! heavens! woe is me!

   Synonyms: seigneur, bon sang, bon Dieu

• “misère”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

• merise, remise, remisé