Wretched

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
        [1913 Webster]


  
              O cruel! Death! to those you are more kind
              Than to the wretched mortals left behind. --Waller.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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