Hypertext Webster Gateway: "wretched"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
O cruel! Death! to those you are more kind Than to
the wretched mortals left behind. --Waller.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (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}]
2: characterized by physical misery; "a wet miserable weekend";
"spent a wretched night on the floor" [syn: {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" [syn: {miserable},
{suffering}]
4: 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";
"couldn't rescue the poor fellow"; "his poor distorted
limbs"; "a wretched life" [syn: {hapless}, {miserable}, {misfortunate},
{pathetic}, {piteous}, {pitiable}, {pitiful}, {poor}]
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