wretched

Adjective Satellite

of very poor quality or condition
characterized by physical misery
- "spent a wretched night on the floor"
very unhappy; full of misery
- "wretched prisoners huddled in stinking cages"
morally reprehensible
deserving or inciting pity; ; ; - Galsworthy
- "a wretched life"

Adj

Characterized by or feeling deep affliction or distress; very miserable.
Of an inferior or unworthy nature or social status; contemptible, lowly.
Of an insignificant, mean, or poor nature; miserable, paltry, worthless.
Of a person, etc.: behaving in a manner causing contempt; base, despicable, wicked.
Of weather: causing much discomfort; very unpleasant; miserable.
Used to express annoyance towards or dislike of someone or something: bloody, damned.

Adjective

In a very unhappy or unfortunate state; miserable.

Examples

Her opponent’s words were so wretched, she almost couldn’t believe they were valid.
I felt wretched after my wife died.
The street was full of wretched beggars dressed in rags.
Will you please stop playing that wretched trombone!

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English wrecched (“(adjective) characterized by or suffering hardship or misfortune, miserable, unfortunate, unhappy; indigent, poor; of low economic or social status, lowly; (noun) miserable person”) [and other forms], from wrecche (“characterized by or suffering hardship or misfortune, miserable, unfortunate, unhappy; indigent, poor; of low economic or social status, lowly; base, contemptible, vile; reprehensible, wicked; miserly, stingy; of little importance, paltry, worthless”) (from Late Old English wrecc, from Old English wreċċa (“an exile, outcast”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wreg- (“to follow, track; to hunt”)) + -ed (suffix forming adjectives). The English word is analysable as wretch (“(obsolete) wretched”, adjective) + -ed (suffix forming adjectives).

Synonyms

deplorable, despicable, execrable, hapless, miserable, misfortunate, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor, slimy, suffering, ugly, unworthy, vile, woeful, worthless, abject, atrabiliary, atrabilious, base, beggarly, blameworthy, blasted, bleeding, blitheless, blue, bummed out, carrion, chapfallen, cheap, cheerless, chopfallen, contemptible, crestfallen, cringing, cut up, damp, dedecorous, degraded, dejected, depressed, depressing, deridable, derisible, despisable, despondent, dirty, disconsolate, discreditable, disdainable, disgraceful, disgruntled, disheartened, dishonorable, dismal, disreputable, distressing, doleful, dolesome, down, down in the dumps, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, downsome, dull, elegiac, elegious, foolish, for the birds, forlorn, frivolous, futile, gloomy, glum, grief-stricken, grieving, grievous, groveling, heartsick, heartsore, heavy-hearted, idle, ignoble, ignominious, ignorable, immaterial, inconsequential, inconsiderable, inconsolable, indifferent, infelicitous, inglorious, insignificant, jawfallen, joyless, lachrymable, lachrymose, lame, lamentable, lamentful, laughable, like a fart in a windstorm, loathsome, low, low-spirited, ludicrous, lugubrious, lumpish, meager, mean, mean-spirited, melancholic, melancholy, minor, moody, mopey, morose, mournful, negligible, nondescript, nothingburger, obscene, outrageous, paltry, passionate, pathetisad, petty, picayune, picayunish, piddly, pissant, pitisome, plaintive, plebeian, pointless, putrid, querulous, regrettable, reprehensible, reptile, reptilian, reptitious, ridiculous, risible, roynish, rueful, sad, saddened, saddening, saturnine, scald, scornworthy, scummy, scurvy, shabby, shameful, shattered, silly, simple, slavish, sleazy, slight, solemn, sombre, sordid, sorrow-ridden, sorrowful, sorrowsome, sorry, spiritless, sullen, threnetic, threnetical, tin-pot, tragic, trashy, trifling, triste, tristful, trivial, two-bit, uncheerful, uncheery, uncommendable, unconsolable, uncool, unhappy, unimportant, unlively, unmentionable, unsophisticated, unwashed, unweighty, upsetting, vain, vulgar, weak, wistful, woe, woebegone, wretched, wretchful

Scrabble Score: 17

wretched: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
wretched: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
wretched: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 17

wretched: valid Words With Friends Word