wretched

Meaning of wretched

adjective
  1. (of a person) in a very unhappy or unfortunate state.
    I felt so wretched because I thought I might never see you again

Middle English: formed irregularly from wretch + -ed1.

Information about wretched

  • It is an adjective.
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Hyphenation of wretched

wretched

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 8 chars.
  • wretched is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

wretched synonyms

Meaning deplorable:

deplorable, execrable, miserable, woeful

Meaning miserable:

miserable, suffering

Meaning despicable:

despicable, ugly, vile, slimy, unworthy, worthless

Meaning hapless:

hapless, miserable, misfortunate, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor

Meaning unfortunate:

unhappy

Meaning feeling or showing sorrow; unhappy:

sad

Meaning suffering from overwhelming distress:

heartbroken

Meaning feel intense sorrow:

grieving

Meaning feeling or showing grief:

sorrowful

Meaning feel or display deep distress:

sorrowing

Meaning the expression of sorrow for someone's death:

mourning

Meaning experiencing or expressing severe mental or physical pain or suffering:

anguished

Meaning suffering from extreme anxiety, sorrow, or pain:

distressed

Meaning feeling or showing great unhappiness or loneliness:

desolate

Meaning destroy or ruin:

devastated

Meaning showing the loss of all hope:

despairing

Meaning (of a person or their grief) not able to be comforted or alleviated:

inconsolable

Meaning very unhappy and unable to be comforted:

disconsolate

Meaning (of a person) feeling despondent:

downcast

Meaning unhappy or depressed:

down

Meaning discouraged; in low spirits:

downhearted

Meaning sad and depressed; dispirited:

dejected

Meaning sad and disappointed:

crestfallen

Meaning gloomy; depressing:

cheerless

Meaning (of a person) in a state of unhappiness or despondency:

depressed

Meaning having a feeling of melancholy; sad and pensive:

melancholy

Meaning sullen and ill-tempered:

morose

Meaning causing or feeling depression or despondency:

gloomy

Meaning looking or feeling dejected; morose:

glum

Meaning feeling, expressing, or inducing sadness, regret, or grief:

mournful

Meaning expressing sorrow; mournful:

doleful

Meaning (of a person or their mood) gloomy:

dismal

Meaning pitifully sad and abandoned or lonely:

forlorn

Meaning sad or miserable in appearance:

woebegone

Meaning (of a situation or condition) extremely unpleasant and degrading:

abject

Meaning of a colour intermediate between green and violet, as of the sky or sea on a sunny day:

blue

Meaning (of a person or animal) have severe difficulty in breathing because of a constricted or obstructed throat or a lack of air:

choked

Meaning bitterly disappointed or upset:

gutted

Meaning feeling or expressing great sorrow or distress:

dolorous

Meaning having or marked by bad fortune; unlucky:

unfortunate

Meaning having, bringing, or resulting from bad luck:

unlucky

Meaning having bad luck; unfortunate:

luckless

Meaning used to emphasize or express anger or frustration with someone or something:

damned

Meaning have a severely detrimental effect on:

blighted

Meaning oppressed or treated badly by people in power:

downtrodden

Meaning subject to harsh and authoritarian treatment:

oppressed

Meaning without ability, influence, or power:

powerless

Meaning unable to defend oneself or to act without help:

helpless

wretched antonyms

Meaning noticeably happy and optimistic:

cheerful

Meaning favoured by or involving good luck; lucky:

fortunate

Translation of wretched

Words that rhyme with wretched

accroached, ached, appeached, approached, areached, attached, bached, beached, bellyached, bleached, breached, broached, cached, coached, detached, empeached, empleached, encroached, forereached, headreached, impeached, impleached, incoached, leached, mustached, nonattached, outcoached, outpreached, outreached, overattached, overbleached, overcoached, overreached, panached, peached, photobleached, pleached, poached, preached, reached, reattached, reproached, roached, semiattached, semibleached, semidetached, stomached, teached, unapproached, unattached

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