About The Word Wretched
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Wretched
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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 Related Terms | Find terms related to Wretched: See Also | 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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