- wretchedness
- I(Roget's IV) n.Syn. misery, poverty, despondency, unhappiness, distress, grief, trouble, affliction, abjection, woe, sadness, disillusionment, depression, melancholia, dejection, discomfort, discontent, tribulation, torment, desperation, despair, desolation, bitterness, blue funk*, dumps*, blues*, doldrums*.Ant. happiness*, joyousness, exuberance.II(Roget's Thesaurus II) noun 1. A state of physical or mental suffering: affliction, agony, anguish, distress, hurt, misery, pain, torment, torture, woe, wound. See HAPPY. 2. A state of prolonged anguish and privation: misery, suffering, woe. See HAPPY.
English dictionary for students. 2013.