Associations to the word «Wretched»
Noun
- Calamity
- Wight
- Sick
- Shriek
- Hag
- Sob
- Sorrow
- Desolation
- Mercy
- Alas
- Fugitive
- Idleness
- Heap
- Quixote
- Cling
- Blunder
- Stench
- Farce
- Convulsion
- Folly
- Humiliation
- Kennel
- Peasantry
- Torture
- Slave
- Sore
- Grate
- Fate
- Fling
- Grief
- Ill
- Indignation
- Vagabond
- Slum
- Weep
- Enough
- Weather
- Wail
- Sobbing
- Pale
- Countenance
- Blind
- Brutality
- Felicity
- Coward
- Distress
- Comfort
- Wandering
- Shame
- Excess
- Nag
- Haunt
- Envy
Adjective
Wiktionary
WRETCHED, adjective. Very miserable; sunk in, or accompanied by, deep affliction or distress, as from want, anxiety, or grief; calamitous; woeful; very afflicting.
WRETCHED, adjective. Worthless; paltry; very poor or mean; miserable.
WRETCHED, adjective. (obsolete) Hatefully contemptible; despicable; wicked.
Dictionary definition
WRETCHED, adjective. Of very poor quality or condition; "deplorable housing conditions in the inner city"; "woeful treatment of the accused"; "woeful errors of judgment".
WRETCHED, adjective. Characterized by physical misery; "a wet miserable weekend"; "spent a wretched night on the floor".
WRETCHED, adjective. Very unhappy; full of misery; "he felt depressed and miserable"; "a message of hope for suffering humanity"; "wretched prisoners huddled in stinking cages".
WRETCHED, adjective. Morally reprehensible; "would do something as despicable as murder"; "ugly crimes"; "the vile development of slavery appalled them"; "a slimy little liar".
WRETCHED, adjective. 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".
Wise words
It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more
value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an
idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words,
but a great deal in a few.