sorry, poor, pitiable; miserable; contemptible; base, vile
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Wretched Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
(a.)
Worthless; paltry; very poor or mean; miserable; as, a wretched poem; a wretched cabin.
Worthless; paltry; very poor or mean; miserable; as, a wretched poem; a wretched cabin.
(a.)
Very miserable; sunk in, or accompanied by, deep affliction or distress, as from want, anxiety, or grief; calamitous; woeful; very afflicting.
Very miserable; sunk in, or accompanied by, deep affliction or distress, as from want, anxiety, or grief; calamitous; woeful; very afflicting.
(a.)
Hatefully contemptible; despicable; wicked.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter. AboutHatefully contemptible; despicable; wicked.
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!" o cruel! death! to those you are more kind than to the wretched mortals left behind.
2. worthless; paltry; very poor or mean; miserable; as, a wretched poem; a wretched cabin.
3. hatefully contemptible; despicable; wicked. [obs.] "wretched ungratefulness." sidney. nero reigned after this claudius, of all men wretchedest, ready to all manner [of] vices. apgrave.
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"; "couldn't rescue the poor fellow"; "his poor distorted limbs"; "a wretched life" [syn: hapless, miserable, misfortunate, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor]
Adfydig = a. distressed, wretched
Adfydiog = a. in adversity; miserable, wretched
Gwaeleddu = v. to make wretched
Truan = a. wretched, miserable
Truanes = n. a wretched female
Trueinind = n. a becoming wretched; a wretched one
Truenus = a. wretched, piteous
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
(similar) inferior
2. characterized by physical misery; "a wet miserable weekend"; "spent a wretched night on the floor"
(synonym) miserable
(similar) uncomfortable
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
(similar) unhappy
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"
(synonym) hapless, miserable, misfortunate, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor
(similar) unfortunate
Wretched Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
Wretched may refer to:
- Wretched (punk band)
- Wretched (doom band)
- "Wretched" (metal band), a technical deathcore band from New York
- "The Wretched", a song by The Word Alive from their album, Deceiver
- The Wretched, an English translation of Les Misérables
- "The Wretched", a song by Nine Inch Nails from their album, The Fragile
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