wretchedadjective
uk/ˈretʃ.ɪd/us/ˈretʃ.ɪd/wretched adjective (BAD QUALITY)
C2 unpleasant or of low quality:
a wretched childhood
The people live in wretched conditions, with no running water.
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Not of good quality
- a miserable, poor, etc. excuse for sth idiom
- apology
- atrocious
- awful
- badly
- be an apology for sth idiom
- clunky
- come/be a poor second, third, etc. idiom
- downscale
- inadequacy
- inadequate
- motley
- mouldy
- not set the world on fire idiom
- tacky
- unappetizing
- unattractive
- unimpressed
- weak sauce
- worst
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Serious and unpleasant
Feeling sad and unhappy
wretched adjective (FEELING BAD)
C2 very ill or very unhappy:
I think I must be coming down with flu - I've been feeling wretched all day.
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Not fit & healthy
- bedridden
- critical list
- crook
- danger list
- dehydrated
- emaciated
- far gone
- frailty
- groggy
- ill
- infirmity
- insufficiency
- knock
- not agree with sb idiom
- off-colour
- organic
- relapse
- shadow
- starved
- unhealthy
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Feeling sad and unhappy
wretched adjective (ANNOYING)
UK used to express anger when something annoying happens:
My wretched car's broken down again.
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Expressions of anger
- bally
- biscuit
- blast
- blasted
- bleeding
- bloody
- dare
- dash
- fie
- flip
- flipping
- for crying out loud! idiom
- freaking
- pipe
- precious
- put/stick that in your pipe and smoke it! idiom
- sodding
- that (really) takes the biscuit idiom
- that does it! idiom
- what a business! idiom
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wretchedness
noun [ U ] uk/ˈretʃ.ɪd.nəs/us/ˈretʃ.ɪd.nəs/