Wretch

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A miserable, unfortunate, or unhappy person.
  • n. A person regarded as base, mean, or despicable: "a stony adversary, an inhuman wretch” ( Shakespeare).
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. An unhappy, unfortunate, or miserable person.
  • n. An unpleasant, annoying person.
  • n. An exile.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A miserable person; one profoundly unhappy.
  • n. One sunk in vice or degradation; a base, despicable person; a vile knave.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A very miserable person; one who is in a state of desperate unhappiness or misfortune, or is exposed to unavoidable suffering or disgrace.
  • n. A sorry or contemptible creature; a despicable person: a term of opprobrium applied to one who has incurred condemnation by misconduct, and often used on slight occasion and with little intended force.
  • n. Body; creature; thing: used (in some manner that indicates the intention) of a person regarded with some degree of kindly or ironical commiseration, or, when genuine words of endearment seem inadequate, with tender sympathy or passion, or even with admiration.
  • Miserable; wretched.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. performs some wicked deed
  • n. someone you feel sorry for
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    miscreant    reprobate    victim   
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    Words that are found in similar contexts
    scoundrel    brute    villain    bastard    tyrant    coward    knave    ruffian    sinner    traitor