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.
Definitions
- adjective. Very miserable; sunk in, or accompanied by, deep affliction or distress, as from want, anxiety, or grief; calamitous; woeful; very afflicting.
- adjective. Worthless; paltry; very poor or mean; miserable; as, a wretched poem; a wretched cabin.
- adjective. Hatefully contemptible; despicable; wicked.
- adjective. characterized by physical misery
"a wet miserable weekend"
"spent a wretched night on the floor"
- adjective. deserving or inciting pity- Galsworthy
"a hapless victim"
"miserable victims of war"
- adjective. morally reprehensible
"would do something as despicable as murder"
"ugly crimes"
- adjective. very unhappy; full of misery
"he felt depressed and miserable"
"a message of hope for suffering humanity"
- adjective. of very poor quality or condition
"deplorable housing conditions in the inner city"
"woeful treatment of the accused"
Synonyms
miserable, hapless, misfortunate, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor, despicable, slimy, ugly, unworthy, vile, worthless, suffering, deplorable, execrable, woeful
Common word forms
wretch, wretcheder, wretchedly, wretchedest, wretchedness
Words from these letters
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