• IPA: /ˈɹɛtʃɪd/

wretched (comparative wretcheder, superlative wretchedest)

1. Very miserable; feeling deep affliction or distress.

   I felt wretched after my wife died.

2. Worthless; paltry; very poor or mean; miserable.

   The street was full of wretched beggars dressed in rags.

   • 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 16]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare & Co.; Sylvia Beach, OCLC 560090630 ↗; republished London: Published for the Egoist Press, London by John Rodker, Paris, October 1922, OCLC 2297483 ↗:

     All those wretched quarrels, in his humble opinion, stirring up bad blood, from some bump of combativeness or gland of some kind, erroneously supposed to be about a punctilio of honour and a flag, […].

3. (obsolete) Hatefully contemptible; despicable; wicked.
4. (informal) Used to express dislike of or annoyance towards the mentioned thing.

   Will you please stop playing that wretched trombone!

• (very miserable) seeSynonyms en
• (worthless) seeSynonyms en
• (hatefully contemptible) seeSynonyms en

• French: misérable
• German: sehr schlecht, miserabel
• Portuguese: miserável
• Russian: жа́лкий

• German: wertlos
• Portuguese: maldito
• Russian: убогий

• IPA: /ɹɛtʃt/

1. Misspelling of retched