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What is the adjective for wretchful?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb wretch which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

wretched
  1. Very miserable; feeling deep affliction or distress
  2. Worthless; paltry; very poor or mean; miserable.
  3. (obsolete) Hatefully contemptible; despicable; wicked.
  4. Synonyms:
      5. unhappy, gloomy, depressed, disconsolate, dejected, downcast, forlorn, sorry, distressed, melancholy, pathetic, pitiful, sad, heartbroken, pitiable, sorrowful, woeful, crestfallen, doleful, down, glum, abject, cheerless, downhearted, inconsolable, poor, woebegone, worthless, anguished, grieving, melancholic, morose, mournful, mourning, sorrowing, sullen, blue, despairing, devastated, hopeless, piteous, rueful, somber, sombre, brokenhearted, comfortless, saddened, solemn, spiritless, bleak … more
  5. Examples:
      6. “Her eyes had widened considerably upon taking in the sight of the wretched man.”
      “It was the ugliest and most wretched event that had happened in the nation over the last thousand years.”
      “Seebohm had done more than anyone to expose the wretched living conditions of the poor in his 1901 treatise on the slums of York.”
wretchful
  1. (archaic) wretched
wretcheder
  1. comparative form of wretched: more wretched
  2. Synonyms:
      3. unhappier, gloomier, forlorner, sorrier, pitifuller, sadder, woefuller, dolefuler, glummer, abjecter, poorer, moroser, mournfuller, sullener, somberer, sombrer, bleaker, drearer, drearier, droopier, lonelier, lower, sourer, more depressed, more disconsolate, more dejected, more downcast, more distressed, more melancholy, more pathetic, more heartbroken, more pitiable, more sorrowful, more crestfallen, more cheerless, more inconsolable, more woebegone, more worthless, more anguished, more melancholic, more blue, more devastated, more hopeless, more piteous, more rueful, more brokenhearted, more comfortless, more solemn, more spiritless, more choked … more
wretchedest
  1. superlative form of wretched: most wretched
  2. Synonyms:
      3. worst, poorest, lousiest, foulest, shoddiest, vilest, crummiest, direst, grottiest, lamest, trashiest, crudest, junkiest, nastiest, most abhorrent, most abominable, most abysmal, most appalling, most atrocious, most average, most awful, most below par, most below standard, most contemptible, most deficient, most deplorable, most detestable, most diabolical, most disagreeable, most disgraceful, most dismal, most dissatisfactory, most distasteful, most dreadful, most execrable, most flawed, most frightful, most God-awful, most hideous, most horrendous, most imperfect, most impure, most inadequate, most inferior, most lamentable, most loathsome, most low-grade, most low-quality, most low-ranking, most malodorous … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “A disagreeable truth would be palatable through her lips, but I am the wretchedest being in the world at a civil falsehood.”
      “Close to an estate of Totski's, in one of the central provinces of Russia, there lived, at that time, a poor gentleman whose estate was of the wretchedest description.”
wretching
  1. Misspelling of retching.
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