WRETCHED


Meaning of WRETCHED in English

adj. 25B6; adjective

I felt so wretched without you : MISERABLE, unhappy, sad, heartbroken, grief-stricken, sorrowful, distressed, desolate, devastated, despairing, disconsolate, downcast, dejected, crestfallen, cheerless, depressed, melancholy, morose, gloomy, mournful, doleful, dismal, forlorn, woebegone; informal blue; poetic/literary dolorous.

I feel wretched : ILL, unwell, poorly, sick, below par; Brit. off colour; informal under the weather, out of sorts.

their living conditions are wretched : HARSH, hard, grim, stark, difficult; poor, impoverished; pitiful, pathetic, miserable, cheerless, sordid, shabby, seedy, dilapidated; informal scummy; Brit. informal grotty.

the wretched dweller in the shanty town : UNFORTUNATE, unlucky, luckless, ill-starred, blighted, hapless, poor, pitiable, downtrodden, oppressed; poetic/literary star-crossed.

he's a wretched coward : DESPICABLE, contemptible, reprehensible, base, vile, loathsome, hateful, detestable, odious, ignoble, shameful, shabby, worthless; informal dirty, rotten, low-down, lousy.

wretched weather : TERRIBLE, awful, dire, atrocious, dreadful, bad, poor, lamentable, deplorable; informal God-awful; Brit. informal beastly.

I don't want the wretched money : informal damn, damned, blasted, blessed, flaming, confounded, rotten; Brit. informal flipping, blinking, blooming, bloody.

cheerful, well, comfortable, fortunate, excellent.

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