Wretched
['retʃɪd] or ['rɛtʃɪd]
Definition
(a.) Very miserable; sunk in, or accompanied by, deep affliction or distress, as from want, anxiety, or grief; calamitous; woeful; very afflicting.
(a.) Worthless; paltry; very poor or mean; miserable; as, a wretched poem; a wretched cabin.
(a.) Hatefully contemptible; despicable; wicked.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Unhappy (on account outward condition), MISERABLE, forlorn, comfortless, woebegone, afflicted, distressed.[2]. Calamitous, afflictive, afflicting, deplorable.[3]. Bad, poor, vile sorry, shabby, pitiful, worthless, paltry, contemptible, shocking.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Miserable, debased, humiliated, fallen, ruined, pitiable, mean, paltry,worthless, vile, despicable, contemptible, sorrowful, afflicted, melancholy,dejected
ANT:Flourishing, prosperous, happy, unfallen, {[adujiraWe]?}, noble, honorable,worthy, valuable, enviable, joyous, felicitous, elated
Typist: Millie
Examples
- I considered; my life was so wretched, it must be changed, or I must die. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I seemed to see that more clearly than ever, when I was the most wretched. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Everybody but me, who am wretched, Joseph Sedley. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Your wretched brother,' said Mr. Gradgrind. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- You will understand me better after that, and our situation will not be so wretched as it is now. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- A wretched place this, isn't it, sir? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Then, that is why it makes me wretched. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Miserable himself, that he may render no other wretched, he ought to die. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- She indeed requires consolation; she accused herself of having caused the death of my brother, and that made her very wretched. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Wretched place this Yorkshire, he went on. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Where I took her into this wretched breast when it was first bleeding from its stabs, and where I have lavished years of tenderness upon her! Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Give it up, you wretched little creetur, or I'll smother you in it. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- O, wretched impostor! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- This wretched note was the finale of Emma's breakfast. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Then you condemn me to live wretched and to die accursed? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- And thus Becky said she was a wanderer, poor, unprotected, friendless, and wretched. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Why should you cling so hard to that wretched life of yours, Sergius? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- It was the subject of the only determined resistance I made in all the wretched years. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- I am wretched in argument, but surely this is so, dear Mr and Mrs Boffin? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I need no revival of my spirits from the effects of this wretched place to tell you so plain a fact, and one that you know so well. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- It must be those wretched gipsies in the plantation. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Wretched creature, what do you want here? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The thought was fleeting; for his attention was instantly drawn towards the inhabitant of this wretched abode. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- She did it with wretched feelings, but it was inevitable. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Dusk The wretched wife of the innocent man thus doomed to die, fell under the sentence, as if she had been mortally stricken. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Increase of knowledge only discovered to me more clearly what a wretched outcast I was. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Christian turned and flung himself on the ferns in a convulsion of remorse, O, what shall I do with my wretched self? Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- He groped his way up, he entered the garret, he found Evadne stretched speechless, almost lifeless on her wretched bed. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- It was a melancholy reflection; and in spite of the diminution of evil produced, it struck on the heart as a wretched mockery. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Trouble nobody long,' cried the wretched figure. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
Typist: Millie