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# wretchedness

«wretchedness» in Mova's school dictionary: **great misery, sadness or unhappiness** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (no plural)

### meaning for a pupil

Wretchedness is great misery, sadness or unhappiness. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wretchedness/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in tales, the state of sorrow and misery that a person falls into

### examples

- She felt the wretchedness of being lost. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wretchedness/#x1)
- He lived in wretchedness for years. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wretchedness/#x2)
- The wretchedness of the poor family made everyone sad. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wretchedness/#x3)
- Nothing for maths. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wretchedness/#x4)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «wretchedness» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wretchedness/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.