Wretchedness - Definition

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"