1 (of a person) feeling ill/sick or unhappy:
You look wretched-what's wrong? * I felt wretched about the way things had turned out.
2 extremely bad or unpleasant:
She had a wretched time of it at school. * The animals are kept in the most wretched conditions.
3 making you feel sympathy or pity:
She finally agreed to have the wretched animal put down.
4 [onlybeforenoun] used to show that you think that sb/sth is extremely annoying:
Is it that wretched woman again?
wretchedly adverb:
'I'm so sorry,' she said wretchedly.
wretchedness noun [U]
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for wretched is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is wretched a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, wretched is tagged as adjective.
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