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- pronunciation:
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adjective |
| definition 1: |
If you feel wretched, you feel extremely unhappy. Sometimes you feel wretched because something very unlucky happened to you, but sometimes you feel wretched because you did something that you really regret now.
The man felt wretched because he could not find a job and he didn't have enough money to feed his children.Nathan's girlfriend left him because of things he said to her, and now he feels wretched.Mr. Riley was so sick he had to go to the hospital. When he finally got better, he said he had never felt so wretched before in his life.- synonyms:
- miserable, unfortunate, unhappy
- antonyms:
- cheerful, fortunate
- similar words:
- depressed, down, low, poor
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| definition 2: |
If someone says they have a wretched job, they mean that it makes them feel very unhappy. If someone has a wretched illness, it causes them a lot of suffering.
Mr. Ruiz quit his job and said he would never go back to that wretched factory.The family was very poor, and they were forced to live in wretched conditions.- synonyms:
- miserable
- antonyms:
- delightful
- similar words:
- awful, bad, bitter, gloomy, poor, rotten
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| definition 3: |
A wretched person is one who is extremely bad or evil.
My mom says that only a wretched person would treat their pets in a cruel way.- similar words:
- low, mean, rotten
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| definition 4: |
If someone does a wretched job of something, they do it very badly. If you do a wretched job of cleaning your room, your effort is completely without success and your room still looks very messy. Maybe it's even worse than before!
Cara thought she did a wretched job of decorating the birthday cake. She hated it so much that she scraped the frosting off the top and started again.Michael made a wretched attempt to apologize to his sister and now she is even more angry.- synonyms:
- inferior, poor
- antonyms:
- excellent
- similar words:
- awful, mean, miserable, rotten
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| related words: |
tough, unlucky |
| derivations: |
wretchedly (adv.), wretchedness (n.) |
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