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wretchedness Definition


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wretched
adj
    1. (of a situation, conditions, etc) poor or inferior; abject or appalling.
      Thesaurus: pitiful, pathetic, dismal, miserable, intolerable, abject.
    2. Miserable, unhappy, distressed or distraught.
      Thesaurus: dejected, depressed, miserable, downcast, gloomy, forlorn, disconsolate, crestfallen, melancholy, broken-hearted; Antonym: content, happy.
    3. Infuriating or loathsome.
      Thesaurus: contemptible, abject, base, despicable, shameful, vile, deplorable.
Derivative: wretchedly
adverb
    Derivative: wretchedness
    noun
      Etymology: 13c.



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