wretched

Speech parts

1. wretched - Adjective

2. wretched - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

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

Worthless; paltry; very poor or mean; miserable; as, a wretched poem; a wretched cabin.

Hatefully contemptible; despicable; wicked.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

poor miserable worthless unworthy pathetic pitiful hapless vile deplorable despicable pitiable execrable woeful piteous duff
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Antonyms

supreme galilee sterling merry jolly primo
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Related terms

obsolete archaic ratchet wretch wretchless wretchful

Phrases with the word

feel wretched be wretched wretched case

Examples

Famine means being deprived of and desiring necessary food. But there is something worse and more wretched than this famine: when someone is deprived of the necessary means of salvation and does not perceive his misfortune, having no desire to be saved. Gregory Palamas

The wretched have no friends. John Dryden

Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through. Anthony Burgess

A wretched year has twenty-four months. Lebanese Proverb

It is a wretched thing to injure a poor man. Egyptian Proverb

Truth never dies, but lives a wretched life. Yiddish Proverb

Close letter words and terms

Wrestlingworth and Cockayne Hatley wretch wretche wretched case wretchedhead wretchedly