wretchedness
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7.1
- noun
- /ˈrɛtʃɪdnəs/
- She could not escape the wretchedness of her circumstances after losing her job.
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Watch on YouTubeThey don't look for an end to their wretchedness, but change the cause of it.
- They don't look for an end to their wretchedness, but change the cause of it.
- And she feels herself almost overcome with fear and wretchedness.
- He says it's equally dangerous for man to know God without knowing his own wretchedness.
- Like in this time of impending doom and wretchedness and it just putridity.
Examples
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"To escape this "abyss of poverty and wretchedness," Sockabasin adopted agriculture but was "met at the threshold with an insuperable obstacle."
Academic text (2018) -
And he says that people, you know, in order to bear their wretchedness, their unhappiness, they say circumstances have been against me.
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How can she bear to listen to all that wretchedness so early in the day?
Fiction book (1996) -
To love him in spite of his wretchedness, to help him protect what he had worked so hard to build.
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All the pain, the spite, the wretchedness was gone to ashes, and anything was possible from now on.
Fiction book (1993) -
The place where families are dissolved every day amid the wretchedness of divorce.
Fiction book (1998) -
They don't look for an end to their wretchedness, but change the cause of it.
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We mustn't look away while there's more wretchedness to be uncovered.
Academic text (2009) -
These were prayers that sprang from tears shed in the blackest moments of my wretchedness.
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In one of his first letters to Garrison about conditions in Ireland, he mentions that prior to seeing the country for himself, he believed that the accounts of "misery and wretchedness of the Irish people," reported in American newspapers, were exaggerated.
Academic text (1999)
Synonyms
630
3.7
A very painful or difficult experience
285
2.8
A feeling of great unhappiness and suffering
129
3.4
A time of serious difficulty, often with little money or food
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6.1
A deep sadness or a serious problem someone has
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5.6
Great physical or mental pain someone feels
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6.8
A place or situation that causes great suffering and pain
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8.4
A state of great suffering that feels like being in hell
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6.0
A feeling of deep unhappiness and suffering
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7.8
A feeling of deep sadness that shows in voice or art
Extreme misery and suffering that makes life very hard
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Etymology
Wretchedness comes from the old word wretch, which once meant a person driven away or very unlucky, and adding -ness turns it into the 'state of being' that person. So, wretchedness means great 'unhappiness' or misery.