WRETCHEDNESS - Definition

WordNet Dictionary

	Definition:	[n] a state of ill-being due to affliction or misfortune; "the misery and wretchedness of those slums is intolerable"

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	Synonyms:	misery

	See Also:	ill-being, living death, suffering, woe

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

	Definition:	\Wretch"ed*ness\, n. 1. The quality or state of being wretched; utter misery. --Sir W. Raleigh. 2. A wretched object; anything despicably. [Obs.] Eat worms and such wretchedness. --Chaucer.