1. A state of ill-being due to affliction or misfortune
   "the misery and wretchedness of those slums is intolerable";
   - misery, miserableness
    
2. The character of being uncomfortable and unpleasant
   "the wretchedness for which these prisons became known"; "the grey wretchedness of the rain"
    
3. The quality of being poor and inferior and sorry
   "he has compiled a record second to none in its wretchedness"

Type of: discomfort, ill-being, inferiority, low quality, uncomfortableness