(n) the character of being uncomfortable and unpleasant, Example:the wretchedness for which these prisons became known; the grey wretchedness of the rain
(n) a state of ill-being due to affliction or misfortune, Syn. miserableness, wretchedness, Example:the misery and wretchedness of those slums is intolerable
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