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 | ||