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Meaning of wretched


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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  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}]


WordNet ® Princeton University. http://wordnet.princeton.edu

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