2. wretched characterized by or attended with misery and sorrow; miserable.
3. wretched despicable, contemptible, or mean: a wretched miser.
4. wretched pitiful or worthless; inferior: a wretched job of sewing.
Etymology: (1150–1200; ME wrecchede. See wretch , -ed3)
Definition of 'wretched'
Princeton's WordNet
1. (adj)deplorable, execrable, miserable, woeful, wretched of very poorquality or condition "deplorable housing conditions in the inner city"; "woeful treatment of the accused"; "woeful errors of judgment"
2. (adj)miserable, wretched characterized by physical misery "a wet miserable weekend"; "spent a wretched night on the floor"
3. (adj)miserable, suffering, wretched very unhappy; full of misery "he felt depressed and miserable"; "a message of hope for suffering humanity"; "wretched prisoners huddled in stinking cages"
4. (adj)despicable, ugly, vile, slimy, unworthy, worthless, wretched morally reprehensible "would do something as despicable as murder"; "ugly crimes"; "the vile development of slavery appalled them"; "a slimy little liar"
5. (adj)hapless, miserable, misfortunate, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor, wretched 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"
1. (adjective)wretched miserable or very ill I feel wretched.
2. wretched marked by poverty and bad conditions the wretched lives of the peasants
3. wretched emphasizes how unpleasant you think sth is their wretched decision to go to war
Definition of 'wretched'
Webster Dictionary
1. (adj)wretched very miserable; sunk in, or accompanied by, deepaffliction or distress, as from want, anxiety, or grief; calamitous; woeful; very afflicting
2. (adj)wretched worthless; paltry; very poor or mean; miserable; as, a wretched poem; a wretched cabin
Definitions of wretched 
Afrikaans: ellendig
Arabic: بائِس، تَعيس
Bulgarian: мизерен
Brazilian: miserável
Czech: ubohý
German: erbärmlich
Danish: elendig
Greek: άθλιος, δυστυχισμένος
Spanish: miserable
Estonian: armetu
Farsi: فلاکت بار
Finnish: kurja
French: misérable
Hebrew: אוּמלַל
Hindi: अभागा
Croatian: jadan, bijedan
Hungarian: nyomorult
Indonesian: menyedihkan
Icelandic: lélegur, ömurlegur
Italian: misero
Japanese: みじめな
Korean: 불행한
Lithuanian: skurdus, varganas
Latvian: nožēlojams; trūcīgs
Malay: malang
Dutch: ellendig
Norwegian: elendig, ussel, jammerlig
Polish: nędzny
Persian: فلاکت بار
Pashto: خواشيني، بې وزلى، غم زپلى
Portuguese: miserável
Romanian: amărât
Russian: никудышный
Slovak: úbohý
Slovenian: beden
Serbian: jadan
Swedish: bedrövlig, eländig
Thai: เคราะห์ร้าย
Turkish: sefil, perişan
Taiwanese: 骯臟的
Ukrainian: нещасний, жалюгідний
Urdu: بد نصیب
Vietnamese: khốn khổ
Chinese: 肮脏的
