Definition of Wretchedness

• 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"