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English to English noun
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a state of ill-being due to affliction or misfortune |
• the misery and wretchedness of those slums is intolerable
source: wordnet30
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the character of being uncomfortable and unpleasant |
• the wretchedness for which these prisons became known
• the grey wretchedness of the rain
source: wordnet30
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the quality of being poor and inferior and sorry |
• he has compiled a record second to none in its wretchedness
source: wordnet30
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The quality or state of being wretched; utter misery. | source: webster1913
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