a state of ill-being due to affliction or misfortune; the misery and wretchedness of those slums is intolerable

[ Syn: misery , miserableness ]

the character of being uncomfortable and unpleasant; the wretchedness for which these prisons became known; the grey wretchedness of the rain'

the quality of being poor and inferior and sorry; he has compiled a record second to none in its wretchedness'