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Adjective wretched has 4 senses
- 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"
Antonym: superior (indirect, via inferior)
- miserable, wretched - characterized by physical misery; "a wet miserable weekend"; "spent a wretched night on the floor"
Antonyms: comfortable, comfy (indirect, via uncomfortable)
- 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"
Antonym: happy (indirect, via unhappy)
- 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"
Antonym: fortunate (indirect, via unfortunate)
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