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wretched meaning and definition

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WRETCHED adjective

Definition of wretched (adjective)

  1. of very poor quality or condition
  2. characterized by physical misery
    • "a wet miserable weekend"; "spent a wretched night on the floor"
    • synonyms: miserable
  3. very unhappy; full of misery
    • "he felt depressed and miserable"; "a message of hope for suffering humanity"; "wretched prisoners huddled in stinking cages"
    • synonyms: miserable, suffering
  4. morally reprehensible
  5. 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"
    • synonyms: hapless, miserable, misfortunate, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor
Source: Princeton University Wordnet

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