Dictionary Entry
wretched
wretched is a 8-letter English word with 8 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Very miserable; sunk in, or accompanied by, deep affliction or distress, as from want, anxiety, or grief; calamitous; woeful; very afflicting. Face value is 17 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
8 letters · Scrabble 17 · Words With Friends 17 · 8 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Very miserable; sunk in, or accompanied by, deep affliction or distress, as from want, anxiety, or grief; calamitous; woeful; very afflicting.
- 2adjective
Worthless; paltry; very poor or mean; miserable; as, a wretched poem; a wretched cabin.
- 3adjective
Hatefully contemptible; despicable; wicked.
- 4adjective
characterized by physical misery
"a wet miserable weekend"
"spent a wretched night on the floor"
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- 5adjective
deserving or inciting pity- Galsworthy
"a hapless victim"
"miserable victims of war"
- 6adjective
morally reprehensible
"would do something as despicable as murder"
"ugly crimes"
- 7adjective
very unhappy; full of misery
"he felt depressed and miserable"
"a message of hope for suffering humanity"
- 8adjective
of very poor quality or condition
"deplorable housing conditions in the inner city"
"woeful treatment of the accused"
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