[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

wretched \wretch"ed\, a.
   1. very miserable; sunk in, or accompanied by, deep
      affliction or distress, as from want, anxiety, or grief;
      calamitous; woeful; very afflicting. "to what wretched
      state reserved" --milton.
      1913 webster

            o cruel death to those you are more kind
            than to the wretched mortals left behind. --waller.
      1913 webster

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

wretched
     adj 1: of very poor quality or condition; "deplorable housing
            conditions in the inner city"; "woeful treatment of
            the accused"; "woeful errors of judgment" syn: deplorable,
             execrable, miserable, woeful
     2: characterized by physical misery; "a wet miserable weekend";
        "spent a wretched night on the floor" syn: miserable
     3: very unhappy; full of misery; "he felt depressed and
        miserable"; "a message of hope for suffering humanity";
        "wretched prisoners huddled in stinking cages" syn: miserable,
         suffering
     4: 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" syn: hapless, miserable, misfortunate,
         pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor
see also:
deplorable execrable miserable woeful suffering hapless 
misfortunate pathetic piteous pitiable pitiful 
poor 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

207 moby thesaurus words for "wretched":
   abject, abominable, adverse, affecting, afflicted, afflictive,
   antagonistic, arrant, atrocious, awful, base, beastly, beggarly,
   beneath contempt, bitter, blameworthy, bleak, brutal, cheap,
   cheerless, cheesy, comfortless, common, conflicting, contemptible,
   contrary, counter, counteractive, crummy, crushed, cut up, debased,
   deep-troubled, degraded, deplorable, depraved, depressing,
   depressive, desolate, despairing, despicable, despondent,
   detestable, detrimental, difficult, dire, dirty, discomforting,
   disconsolate, discontented, disgusting, dismal, dismaying,
   distressful, distressing, doleful, dolorific, dolorogenic,
   dolorous, dreadful, dreary, egregious, enormous, execrable, fetid,
   filthy, flagrant, forlorn, foul, fulsome, gaudy, gimcracky, grave,
   grievous, grim, gross, hard, harmful, hateful, heart-stricken,
   heart-struck, heartsick, heinous, hopeless, horrible, horrid,
   hostile, humorless, ignoble, in bad humor, in opposition, indolent,
   infamous, infestive, inimical, joyless, lamentable, little,
   loathsome, lousy, low, low-down, lumpen, mangy, mean, measly,
   melancholy, meretricious, mirthless, miserable, monstrous,
   mournful, moving, nasty, nefarious, noisome, not easy, notorious,
   obnoxious, odious, offensive, opposed, opposing, opposite,
   out of humor, out of sorts, outrageous, painful, paltry, pathetic,
   petty, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, pleasureless, poignant, poky,
   poor, rank, regrettable, reprehensible, reptilian, repulsive,
   rigorous, rotten, rubbishy, rueful, ruthful, sad, saddening,
   scabby, scandalous, schlock, scrubby, scruffy, scummy, scurvy,
   scuzzy, servile, shabby, shameful, sharp, shocking, shoddy,
   sinister, slumlike, slummy, small, sordid, sore, sorrowful, sorry,
   sorryish, squalid, stressful, stricken, suicidal, terrible,
   too bad, touching, trashy, troublesome, troublous, trumpery,
   trying, two-for-a-cent, two-for-a-penny, twopenny,
   twopenny-halfpenny, uncheerful, uncheery, unclean, uncomfortable,
   unfavorable, unhappy, unjoyful, unmentionable, unmirthful,
   unsmiling, untoward, valueless, vile, villainous, woebegone,
   woeful, worst, worthless

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