Thesaurus: wretched

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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. 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. O cruel! Death! to those you are more kind Than to the wretched mortals left behind. Waller. The wretched refuse of your teeming shore . . . 2. Worthless; paltry; very poor or mean; miserable; as, a wretched poem; a wretched cabin. 3. Hatefully contemptible; despicable; wicked. [Obs.] "Wretched ungratefulness." Sir P. Sidney. Nero reigned after this Claudius, of all men wretchedest, ready to all manner [of] vices. Capgrave.
10. 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