Definition of wretched

"wretched" in the adjective sense

1. deplorable, execrable, miserable, woeful, wretched

of very poor quality or condition

"deplorable housing conditions in the inner city"

"woeful treatment of the accused"

"woeful errors of judgment"

2. miserable, wretched

characterized by physical misery

"a wet miserable weekend"

"spent a wretched night on the floor"

3. miserable, suffering, wretched

very unhappy full of misery

"he felt depressed and miserable"

"a message of hope for suffering humanity"

"wretched prisoners huddled in stinking cages"

4. despicable, ugly, vile, slimy, unworthy, worthless, wretched

morally reprehensible

"would do something as despicable as murder"

"ugly crimes"

"the vile development of slavery appalled them"

"a slimy little liar"

5. hapless, miserable, misfortunate, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor, wretched

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"

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Quotations for wretched

Wretched, un-idea'd girls. [ Samuel Johnson ]

The wretched have no friends. [ John Dryden ]

The most wretched have yet hope. [ Tupper ]

That last dignity of the wretched. [ Henry Giles ]

How wretched is the man who never mourned! [ Young ]

My loss is such as cannot be repaired,
And to the wretched, life can be no mercy. [ Dryden ]

You see me here, - a poor old man,
As full of grief as age; wretched in both! [ William Shakespeare ]

Sick in the world's regard, wretched and low. [ William Shakespeare ]

Most wretched men
Are cradled into poetry by wrong;
They learn in suffering what they teach in song. [ Shelley ]

Thus, day by day, and month by month, we passed;
It pleased the Lord to take my spouse at last.
I tore my gown, I soiled my locks with dust.
And beat my breasts - as wretched widows must:
Before my face my handkerchief I spread,
To hide the flood of tears I did - not shed. [ Pope ]

It is prudence that first forsakes the wretched. [ Ovid ]

'Tis hard to be wretched, but worse to be known so. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Trust not the treason of those smiling looks.
Until ye have their guileful trains well tried;
For they are like but unto golden hooks.
That from the foolish fish their baits do hide:
So she with flattering smiles weak hearts doth guide
Unto her love, and tempt to their decay;
Whom, being caught, she kills with cruel pride,
And feeds at pleasure on the wretched prey. [ Spenser ]

Whatever we give to the wretched, we lend to fortune. [ Seneca ]

That is a most wretched fortune which is without an enemy. [ Publius Syrus ]

Comparison, more than reality, makes men happy or wretched. [ Proverb ]

We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike.
We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are. [ Balzac ]

Ah! wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company! [ Cowley ]

From ignorance our comfort flows, The only wretched are the wise. [ Prior ]

It is a comfort to the wretched to have companions in misfortune.

We find greater violence and more perseverance among the wretched. [ Tac ]

Death! to the happy thou art terrible;
But how the wretched love to think of thee,
O thou true comforter! the friend of all Who have no friend beside! [ Southey ]

How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings. [ Lucretius ]

The most wretched fortune is safe; for there is no fear of anything worse. [ Ovid ]

It is, alas! the poor prerogative of greatness, to be wretched and unpitied. [ Congreve ]

Not unfamiliar with misfortune myself, I have learned to succour the wretched. [ Virgil ]

Call not that man wretched, who whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love. [ Southey ]

How is it that the wretched have such an infatuated longing for life (the light)? [ Virgil ]

Is there anything so wretched as to look at a man of fine abilities doing nothing? [ Chapin ]

However wretched a fellow-mortal may be, he is still a member of our common species. [ Seneca ]

If mercy were not mingled with His power, this wretched world could not subsist one hour. [ Sir W. Davenant ]

In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who, can endure a wretched life. [ Martial ]

No man who is wretched in his own heart and feeble in his own work can rightly help others. [ John Ruskin ]

It is easy in adversity to despise death; real fortitude has he who can dare to be wretched. [ Seneca ]

It is easy in adversity to despise death; he has real fortitude who dares to live and be wretched. [ Martial ]

Let others seek security. My most wretched fortune is secure; for there is no fear of worse to follow. [ Ovid ]

The wretchedness which fate has rendered voiceless and tuneless is not the least wretched, but the most. [ Carlyle ]

Envy sets the stronger seal on desert; if he have no enemies, I should esteem his fortune most wretched. [ Ben Jonson ]

The presence of the wretched is a burden to the happy; and alas! the happy still more so to the wretched. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

He is just as truly running counter to God's will by being intentionally wretched as by intentionally doing wrong. [ W. R. Greg ]

It is a wretched thing to lean on the reputation of others, lest the pillars being withdrawn the roof should fall in ruins. [ Juvenal ]

There is nothing so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it in expecting evil before it arrives? [ Seneca ]

To have no assistance from other minds in resolving doubts, in appeasing scruples, in balancing deliberations, is a very wretched destitution. [ Johnson ]

The man who has learned to triumph over sorrow wears his miseries as though they were sacred fillets upon his brow; and nothing is so entirely admirable as a man bravely wretched. [ Seneca ]

For the short-lived bloom and contracted span of brief and wretched life is fast fleeting away! While we are drinking and calling for garlands, ointments, and women, old age steals swiftly on with noiseless step. [ Juvenal ]

O blessed health! thou art above all gold and treasure; 'tis thou who enlargest the soul, and openest all its powers to receive instruction, and to relish virtue. He that has thee has little more to wish for, and he that is so wretched as to want thee, wants everything with thee. [ Sterne ]

What a wretched thing is all fame! A renown of the highest sort endures, say, for two thousand years. And then? Why, then, a fathomless eternity swallows it. Work for eternity: not the meagre rhetorical eternity of the periodical critics, but for the real eternity, wherein dwelleth the Divine. [ Carlyle ]

wretched in Scrabble®

The word wretched is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 17

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters wretched:

WRETCHED
(180)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (1 word)

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wretched in Words With Friends™

The word wretched is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 17

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters wretched:

WRETCHED
(150)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (1 word)

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Words within the letters of wretched

2 letter words in wretched (4 words)

3 letter words in wretched (13 words)

6 letter words in wretched (8 words)

7 letter words in wretched (1 word)

8 letter words in wretched (1 word)

wretched + 1 blank (1 word)

wretched + 2 blanks (2 words)

Words containing the sequence wretched

Words that start with wretched (5 words)

Words with wretched in them (1 word)

Words that end with wretched (1 word)

Word Growth involving wretched

Shorter words in wretched

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Longer words containing wretched

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