wretched : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: wretched	by the DICT Development Group
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
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.