'Wretchedness' definitions:
Definition of 'wretchedness'
(from WordNet)
noun
A state of ill-being due to affliction or misfortune; "the misery and wretchedness of those slums is intolerable" [syn: misery, wretchedness, miserableness]
noun
The character of being uncomfortable and unpleasant; "the wretchedness for which these prisons became known"; "the grey wretchedness of the rain"
noun
The quality of being poor and inferior and sorry; "he has compiled a record second to none in its wretchedness"
Definition of 'Wretchedness'
From: GCIDE
- Wretchedness \Wretch"ed*ness\, n.
- 1. The quality or state of being wretched; utter misery. --Sir W. Raleigh. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A wretched object; anything despicably. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- Eat worms and such wretchedness. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]