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wretchedness

DEFINITIONS OF: wretchedness

1

n a state of ill-being due to affliction or misfortune

Synonyms:
miserableness, misery
Types:
concentration camp
a situation characterized by crowding and extremely harsh conditions
living death
a state of constant misery
suffering, woe
misery resulting from affliction
Type of:
ill-being
lack of prosperity or happiness or health

n 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 state of being tense and feeling pain

n 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
an inferior quality
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