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Wretched

Wretched Meaning & Definition
Wretched Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Wretched?

[adj] characterized by physical misery; "a wet miserable weekend"; "spent a wretched night on the floor"
[adj] deserving or inciting pity; "a hapless victim"; "miserable victims of war"; "the shabby room struck her as extraordinarily pathetic"- Galsworthy; "piteous appeals for help"; "pitiable homeless children"; "a pitiful fate"; "couldn't rescue the poor fellow"; "his poor distorted limbs"; "a wretched life"
[adj] very unhappy; full of misery; "he felt depressed and miserable"; "a message of hope for suffering humanity"; "wretched prisoners huddled in stinking cages"
[adj] of very poor quality or condition; "deplorable housing conditions in the inner city"; "woeful treatment of the accused"; "woeful errors of judgment"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Wretched: deplorable | execrable | hapless | inferior | miserable | misfortunate | pathetic | piteous | pitiable | pitiful | poor | suffering | uncomfortable | unfortunate | unhappy | woeful

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Wretched In Webster's Dictionary

\Wretch"ed\, a. 1. Very miserable; sunk in, or accompanied by, deep affliction or distress, as from want, anxiety, or grief; calamitous; woeful; very afflicting. ``To what wretched state reserved!'' --Milton. O cruel! Death! to those you are more kind Than to the wretched mortals left behind. --Waller. 2. Worthless; paltry; very poor or mean; miserable; as, a wretched poem; a wretched cabin. 3. Hatefully contemptible; despicable; wicked. [Obs.] ``Wretched ungratefulness.'' --Sir P. Sidney. Nero reigned after this Claudius, of all men wretchedest, ready to all manner [of] vices. --Capgrave.

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