wretchedness

Meanings

Plural: wretchednesses

Noun

• a state of ill-being due to affliction or misfortune
  • "the misery and wretchedness of those slums is intolerable"
• 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"
• An unhappy state of mental or physical suffering.
• A state of prolonged misfortune, privation, or anguish.

Synonyms

blueness, blues, crestfallenness, dejection, depression, despondency, distress, dolefulness, downheartedness, drearihead, forlornness, grief, heartsore, ill-being, infelicity, melancholia, melancholy, miserableness, misery, mishappiness, mourn, prosternation, regret, rue, ruth, sadness, sorrow, sorrowfulness, tristfulness, undelight, unhappiness, woe, woefare, wretchedness