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Very miserable; sunk in, or accompanied by, deep affliction or distress, as from want, anxiety, or grief; calamitous; woeful; very afflicting.

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  1. a. Very miserable; sunk in, or accompanied by, deep affliction or distress, as from want, anxiety, or grief; calamitous; woeful; very afflicting.
  2. a. Worthless; paltry; very poor or mean; miserable; as, a wretched poem; a wretched cabin.
  3. a. Hatefully contemptible; despicable; wicked.
  4. adj. of very poor quality or condition
  5. adj. characterized by physical misery
  6. adj. very unhappy; full of misery
  7. adj. morally reprehensible
  8. adj. deserving or inciting pity
  9. j:100 s of very poor quality or condition s characterized by physical misery s very unhappy; full of misery s morally reprehensible s deserving or inciting pity