wretchedness

Nouns

  • (n) a state of ill-being due to affliction or misfortune
    • the misery and wretchedness of those slums is intolerable
    miserableness, misery,
  • (n) the character of being uncomfortable and unpleasant
    • the wretchedness for which these prisons became known
    • the grey wretchedness of the rain
  • (n) the quality of being poor and inferior and sorry
    • he has compiled a record second to none in its wretchedness

Synonyms

miserableness misery

Words of close approximity