Usually means: Deeply miserable, distressed, or unfortunate.
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We found 30 dictionaries that define the word wretched:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. wretched: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. wretched: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. wretched: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. wretched: Collins English Dictionary
  5. wretched: Vocabulary.com
  6. Wretched, wretched: Wordnik
  7. wretched: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. wretched: Wiktionary
  9. wretched: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. wretched: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. wretched: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. wretched: Dictionary.com
  13. wretched: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. wretched: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. The Wretched, Wretched (doom band), Wretched (metal band), Wretched (punk band), Wretched: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Wretched: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. wretched: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. wretched: Rhymezone
  19. wretched: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. wretched: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. wretched: Free Dictionary
  22. wretched: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. wretched: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. wretched: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. wretched: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. wretched: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. wretched: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Wretched: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See wretchedly as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Characterized by or feeling deep affliction or distress; very miserable.
adjective:  Of an inferior or unworthy nature or social status; contemptible, lowly.
adjective:  Of an insignificant, mean, or poor nature; miserable, paltry, worthless.
adjective:  Of a person, etc.: behaving in a manner causing contempt; base, despicable, wicked.
adjective:  Of weather: causing much discomfort; very unpleasant; miserable.
adjective:  (informal) Used to express annoyance towards or dislike of someone or something: bloody, damned.

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