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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (5)

1. of very poor quality or condition;
- Example: "deplorable housing conditions in the inner city"
- Example: "woeful treatment of the accused"
- Example: "woeful errors of judgment"
[syn: deplorable, execrable, miserable, woeful, wretched]

2. characterized by physical misery;
- Example: "a wet miserable weekend"
- Example: "spent a wretched night on the floor"
[syn: miserable, wretched]

3. very unhappy; full of misery;
- Example: "he felt depressed and miserable"
- Example: "a message of hope for suffering humanity"
- Example: "wretched prisoners huddled in stinking cages"
[syn: miserable, suffering, wretched]

4. morally reprehensible;
- Example: "would do something as despicable as murder"
- Example: "ugly crimes"
- Example: "the vile development of slavery appalled them"
- Example: "a slimy little liar"
[syn: despicable, ugly, vile, slimy, unworthy, worthless, wretched]

5. deserving or inciting pity;
- Example: "a hapless victim"
- Example: "miserable victims of war"
- Example: "the shabby room struck her as extraordinarily pathetic"- Galsworthy
- Example: "piteous appeals for help"
- Example: "pitiable homeless children"
- Example: "a pitiful fate"
- Example: "Oh, you poor thing"
- Example: "his poor distorted limbs"
- Example: "a wretched life"
[syn: hapless, miserable, misfortunate, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor, wretched]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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. "To what wretched
      state reserved!" --Milton.
      [1913 Webster]

            O cruel! Death! to those you are more kind
            Than to the wretched mortals left behind. --Waller.
      [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

wretched
    adj 1: of very poor quality or condition; "deplorable housing
           conditions in the inner city"; "woeful treatment of the
           accused"; "woeful errors of judgment" [syn: deplorable,
           execrable, miserable, woeful, wretched]
    2: characterized by physical misery; "a wet miserable weekend";
       "spent a wretched night on the floor" [syn: miserable,
       wretched]
    3: very unhappy; full of misery; "he felt depressed and
       miserable"; "a message of hope for suffering humanity";
       "wretched prisoners huddled in stinking cages" [syn:
       miserable, suffering, wretched]
    4: morally reprehensible; "would do something as despicable as
       murder"; "ugly crimes"; "the vile development of slavery
       appalled them"; "a slimy little liar" [syn: despicable,
       ugly, vile, slimy, unworthy, worthless, wretched]
    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" [syn: hapless, miserable, misfortunate,
       pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor,
       wretched]