Main entry: miserable, wretched
Definition: characterized by physical misery
Usage: a wet miserable weekend; spent a wretched night on the floor
Main entry: hapless, poor, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, wretched, miserable, misfortunate, pathetic
Definition: deserving or inciting pity
Usage: 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
Main entry: despicable, slimy, ugly, unworthy, worthless, wretched, vile
Definition: morally reprehensible
Usage: would do something as despicable as murder; ugly crimes; the vile development of slavery appalled them; a slimy little liar
Main entry: wretched, miserable, suffering
Definition: very unhappy; full of misery
Usage: he felt depressed and miserable; a message of hope for suffering humanity; wretched prisoners huddled in stinking cages
Main entry: deplorable, execrable, woeful, wretched, miserable
Definition: of very poor quality or condition
Usage: deplorable housing conditions in the inner city; woeful treatment of the accused; woeful errors of judgment