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English Dictionary: wretched |
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2 results for wretched |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: |
- wretched
- adj
- of very poor quality or condition; "deplorable housing
conditions in the inner city"; "woeful treatment of the accused"; "woeful errors of judgment"
Synonym(s): deplorable, execrable, miserable, woeful, wretched
- characterized by physical misery; "a wet miserable weekend"; "spent a wretched night on the floor"
Synonym(s): miserable, wretched
- very unhappy; full of misery; "he felt depressed and miserable"; "a message of hope for suffering humanity"; "wretched prisoners huddled in stinking cages"
Synonym(s): miserable, suffering, wretched
- morally reprehensible; "would do something as despicable as murder"; "ugly crimes"; "the vile development of slavery appalled them"; "a slimy little liar"
Synonym(s): despicable, ugly, vile, slimy, unworthy, worthless, wretched
- 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"
Synonym(s): hapless, miserable, misfortunate, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor, wretched
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: |
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. [bd]To what wretched
state reserved![b8] --Milton.
O cruel! Death! to those you are more kind Than to
the wretched mortals left behind. --Waller.
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