Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Wretched \Wretch"ed\, a.
   1. Very miserable; sunk in, or accompanied by, deep
      affliction or distress, as from want, anxiety, or grief;
      calamitous; woeful; very afflicting. ``To what wretched
      state reserved!'' --Milton.

            O cruel! Death! to those you are more kind Than to
            the wretched mortals left behind.     --Waller.

Source : WordNet®

wretched
     adj 1: of very poor quality or condition; "deplorable housing
            conditions in the inner city"; "woeful treatment of
            the accused"; "woeful errors of judgment" [syn: {deplorable},
             {execrable}, {miserable}, {woeful}]
     2: characterized by physical misery; "a wet miserable weekend";
        "spent a wretched night on the floor" [syn: {miserable}]
     3: very unhappy; full of misery; "he felt depressed and
        miserable"; "a message of hope for suffering humanity";
        "wretched prisoners huddled in stinking cages" [syn: {miserable},
         {suffering}]
     4: 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" [syn: {hapless}, {miserable}, {misfortunate},
         {pathetic}, {piteous}, {pitiable}, {pitiful}, {poor}]