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Meaning & Definition of Wretched in English

English

Wretched

/rɛʧɪd/

adjective

1. Of very poor quality or condition

  • "Deplorable housing conditions in the inner city"
  • "Woeful treatment of the accused"
  • "Woeful errors of judgment"
synonym:
  • deplorable,
  • execrable,
  • miserable,
  • woeful,
  • wretched

2. Characterized by physical misery

  • "A wet miserable weekend"
  • "Spent a wretched night on the floor"
synonym:
  • miserable,
  • wretched

3. Very unhappy

  • Full of misery
  • "He felt depressed and miserable"
  • "A message of hope for suffering humanity"
  • "Wretched prisoners huddled in stinking cages"
synonym:
  • miserable,
  • suffering,
  • wretched

4. Morally reprehensible

  • "Would do something as despicable as murder"
  • "Ugly crimes"
  • "The vile development of slavery appalled them"
  • "A slimy little liar"
synonym:
  • despicable,
  • ugly,
  • vile,
  • slimy,
  • unworthy,
  • worthless,
  • wretched

5. 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"
  • "Oh, you poor thing"
  • "His poor distorted limbs"
  • "A wretched life"
synonym:
  • hapless,
  • miserable,
  • misfortunate,
  • pathetic,
  • piteous,
  • pitiable,
  • pitiful,
  • poor,
  • wretched

Examples of using

Begone, wretched spawn of Hell's unholy bowels!
Because thou sayest — I am rich, and have grown rich, and have need of nothing, and hast not known that thou art the wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked.