WRETCHED
Dictionary entry overview: What does wretched mean?
• WRETCHED (adjective)
The adjective WRETCHED has 5 senses:
1. of very poor quality or condition
2. characterized by physical misery
3. very unhappy; full of misery
4. morally reprehensible
5. deserving or inciting pity
Familiarity information: WRETCHED used as an adjective is common.
Dictionary entry details
• WRETCHED (adjective)
Meaning:
Of very poor quality or condition
Synonyms:
execrable; wretched; woeful; deplorable; miserable
Context examples:
deplorable housing conditions in the inner city / woeful treatment of the accused / woeful errors of judgment
Similar:
inferior (of low or inferior quality)
Meaning:
Characterized by physical misery
Synonyms:
wretched; miserable
Context examples:
a wet miserable weekend / spent a wretched night on the floor
Similar:
uncomfortable (providing or experiencing physical discomfort)
Meaning:
Very unhappy; full of misery
Synonyms:
miserable; suffering; wretched
Context examples:
he felt depressed and miserable / a message of hope for suffering humanity / wretched prisoners huddled in stinking cages
Similar:
unhappy (experiencing or marked by or causing sadness or sorrow or discontent)
Meaning:
Morally reprehensible
Synonyms:
despicable; vile; slimy; worthless; unworthy; ugly; wretched
Context examples:
would do something as despicable as murder / ugly crimes / the vile development of slavery appalled them / a slimy little liar
Similar:
evil (morally bad or wrong)
Meaning:
Deserving or inciting pity
Synonyms:
hapless; misfortunate; pathetic; piteous; poor; miserable; pitiable; pitiful; wretched
Context examples:
a hapless victim / miserable victims of war / the shabby room struck her as extraordinarily pathetic / piteous appeals for help / pitiable homeless children / a pitiful fate / Oh, you poor thing / his poor distorted limbs / a wretched life
Similar:
unfortunate (not favored by fortune; marked or accompanied by or resulting in ill fortune)
