Wretched \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.
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O cruel! Death! to those you are more kind
Than to the wretched mortals left behind. --Waller.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
wretched
adj 1: of very poor quality or condition; "deplorable housing
conditions in the inner city"; "woeful treatment of
the accused"; "woeful errors of judgment" [syn: deplorable,
execrable, miserable, woeful]
2: characterized by physical misery; "a wet miserable weekend";
"spent a wretched night on the floor" [syn: miserable]
3: very unhappy; full of misery; "he felt depressed and
miserable"; "a message of hope for suffering humanity";
"wretched prisoners huddled in stinking cages" [syn: miserable,
suffering]
4: 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" [syn: hapless, miserable, misfortunate,
pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor]
WordNet (r) 2.0
207 Moby Thesaurus words for "wretched":
abject, abominable, adverse, affecting, afflicted, afflictive,
antagonistic, arrant, atrocious, awful, base, beastly, beggarly,
beneath contempt, bitter, blameworthy, bleak, brutal, cheap,
cheerless, cheesy, comfortless, common, conflicting, contemptible,
contrary, counter, counteractive, crummy, crushed, cut up, debased,
deep-troubled, degraded, deplorable, depraved, depressing,
depressive, desolate, despairing, despicable, despondent,
detestable, detrimental, difficult, dire, dirty, discomforting,
disconsolate, discontented, disgusting, dismal, dismaying,
distressful, distressing, doleful, dolorific, dolorogenic,
dolorous, dreadful, dreary, egregious, enormous, execrable, fetid,
filthy, flagrant, forlorn, foul, fulsome, gaudy, gimcracky, grave,
grievous, grim, gross, hard, harmful, hateful, heart-stricken,
heart-struck, heartsick, heinous, hopeless, horrible, horrid,
hostile, humorless, ignoble, in bad humor, in opposition, indolent,
infamous, infestive, inimical, joyless, lamentable, little,
loathsome, lousy, low, low-down, lumpen, mangy, mean, measly,
melancholy, meretricious, mirthless, miserable, monstrous,
mournful, moving, nasty, nefarious, noisome, not easy, notorious,
obnoxious, odious, offensive, opposed, opposing, opposite,
out of humor, out of sorts, outrageous, painful, paltry, pathetic,
petty, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, pleasureless, poignant, poky,
poor, rank, regrettable, reprehensible, reptilian, repulsive,
rigorous, rotten, rubbishy, rueful, ruthful, sad, saddening,
scabby, scandalous, schlock, scrubby, scruffy, scummy, scurvy,
scuzzy, servile, shabby, shameful, sharp, shocking, shoddy,
sinister, slumlike, slummy, small, sordid, sore, sorrowful, sorry,
sorryish, squalid, stressful, stricken, suicidal, terrible,
too bad, touching, trashy, troublesome, troublous, trumpery,
trying, two-for-a-cent, two-for-a-penny, twopenny,
twopenny-halfpenny, uncheerful, uncheery, unclean, uncomfortable,
unfavorable, unhappy, unjoyful, unmentionable, unmirthful,
unsmiling, untoward, valueless, vile, villainous, woebegone,
woeful, worst, worthless
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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