1.Definition: a state of ill-being due to affliction or misfortune

"The misery and wretchedness of those slums is intolerable"

Related Noun(s):miserableness, misery

Category: General

2.Definition: the character of being uncomfortable and unpleasant

"The wretchedness for which these prisons became known", "The grey wretchedness of the rain"

Category: General

3.Definition: the quality of being poor and inferior and sorry

"He has compiled a record second to none in its wretchedness"

Category: General