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1. Of very poor quality or condition
   "wretched housing conditions in the inner city";
   - deplorable, execrable, miserable, woeful
    
2. Characterized by physical misery
   "spent a wretched night on the floor";
   - miserable
    
3. Very unhappy; full of misery
   "wretched prisoners huddled in stinking cages";
   - miserable, suffering
    
4. Morally reprehensible
   "would do something as wretched as murder";
   - despicable, ugly, vile, slimy, unworthy, worthless
    
5. Deserving or inciting pity
   "a wretched life";
   - hapless, miserable, misfortunate, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor

Derived forms: wretcheder, wretchedest

See also: evil, inferior, uncomfortable, unfortunate, unhappy

Encyclopedia: Wretched