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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (3)

1. a state of ill-being due to affliction or misfortune;
- Example: "the misery and wretchedness of those slums is intolerable"
[syn: misery, wretchedness, miserableness]

2. the character of being uncomfortable and unpleasant;
- Example: "the wretchedness for which these prisons became known"
- Example: "the grey wretchedness of the rain"

3. the quality of being poor and inferior and sorry;
- Example: "he has compiled a record second to none in its wretchedness"



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Wretchedness \Wretch"ed*ness\, n.
   1. The quality or state of being wretched; utter misery.
      --Sir W. Raleigh.
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   2. A wretched object; anything despicably. [Obs.]
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            Eat worms and such wretchedness.      --Chaucer.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

wretchedness
    n 1: a state of ill-being due to affliction or misfortune; "the
         misery and wretchedness of those slums is intolerable"
         [syn: misery, wretchedness, miserableness]
    2: the character of being uncomfortable and unpleasant; "the
       wretchedness for which these prisons became known"; "the grey
       wretchedness of the rain"
    3: the quality of being poor and inferior and sorry; "he has
       compiled a record second to none in its wretchedness"