English noun: wretchedness | |||
1. | wretchedness (state) a state of ill-being due to affliction or misfortune | ||
Samples | The misery and wretchedness of those slums is intolerable. | ||
Synonyms | miserableness, misery | ||
Broader (hypernym) | ill-being | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | concentration camp, living death, suffering, woe | ||
2. | wretchedness (state) the character of being uncomfortable and unpleasant | ||
Samples | The wretchedness for which these prisons became known. The grey wretchedness of the rain. | ||
Broader (hypernym) | discomfort, uncomfortableness | ||
3. | wretchedness (attribute) the quality of being poor and inferior and sorry | ||
Samples | He has compiled a record second to none in its wretchedness. | ||
Broader (hypernym) | inferiority, low quality | ||