noun
- A state of ill-being due to affliction or misfortune.
- usage: "the misery and wretchedness of those slums is intolerable"
- synonyms: misery, miserableness
- The character of being uncomfortable and unpleasant.
- usage: "the wretchedness for which these prisons became known"; "the grey wretchedness of the rain"
- The quality of being poor and inferior and sorry.
- usage: "he has compiled a record second to none in its wretchedness"
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
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