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Definition of 'wretched'

Adjective

  1. of very poor quality or condition; "deplorable housing conditions in the inner city"; "woeful treatment of the accused"; "woeful errors of judgment"
       Synonyms: deplorable execrable miserable woeful
  2. characterized by physical misery; "a wet miserable weekend"; "spent a wretched night on the floor"
       Synonyms: 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"
       Synonyms: miserable suffering
  4. morally reprehensible; "would do something as despicable as murder"; "ugly crimes"; "the vile development of slavery appalled them"; "a slimy little liar"
       Synonyms: despicable ugly vile slimy unworthy worthless
  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"
       Synonyms: hapless miserable misfortunate pathetic piteous pitiable pitiful poor


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