a. | 1. | Very miserable; sunk in, or accompanied by, deep affliction or distress, as from want, anxiety, or grief; calamitous; woeful; very afflicting. |
2. | Worthless; paltry; very poor or mean; miserable; | |
3. | Hatefully contemptible; despicable; wicked. |
Adj. | 1. | wretched - of very poor quality or condition; "deplorable housing conditions in the inner city"; "woeful treatment of the accused"; "woeful errors of judgment" |
2. | wretched - characterized by physical misery; "a wet miserable weekend"; "spent a wretched night on the floor" Synonyms: miserable | |
3. | wretched - very unhappy; full of misery; "he felt depressed and miserable"; "a message of hope for suffering humanity"; "wretched prisoners huddled in stinking cages" | |
4. | 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" |