Textual thesaurus for "wretched"

(adj) miserable

characterized by physical misery

a wet miserable weekend; spent a wretched night on the floor

(adj) hapless, poor, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, miserable, misfortunate, pathetic

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

(adj) despicable, slimy, ugly, unworthy, worthless, vile

morally reprehensible

would do something as despicable as murder; ugly crimes; the vile development of slavery appalled them; a slimy little liar

(adj) miserable, suffering

very unhappy; full of misery

he felt depressed and miserable; a message of hope for suffering humanity; wretched prisoners huddled in stinking cages

(adj) deplorable, execrable, woeful, miserable

of very poor quality or condition

deplorable housing conditions in the inner city; woeful treatment of the accused; woeful errors of judgment