wretchedness
NounOpen English WordNet
Noun (3)
- a state of ill-being due to affliction or misfortune“the misery and wretchedness of those slums is intolerable”Synonyms: miserymiserablenessType of ill-beingKinds suffering, concentration camp, living death
- the character of being uncomfortable and unpleasant“the wretchedness for which these prisons became known”“the grey wretchedness of the rain”Type of discomfort, uncomfortableness
- the quality of being poor and inferior and sorry“he has compiled a record second to none in its wretchedness”Type of inferiority, low quality
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Wretch′ed·ness noun
1. The quality or state of being wretched; utter misery. Sir Walter Raleigh
2. A wretched object; anything despicably. obsolete
Eat worms and such wretchedness.— Geoffrey Chaucer
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54