Definition of wretched

• a. - Very miserable; sunk in, or accompanied by, deep affliction or distress, as from want, anxiety, or grief; calamitous; woeful; very afflicting.
• a. - Worthless; paltry; very poor or mean; miserable; as, a wretched poem; a wretched cabin.
• a. - Hatefully contemptible; despicable; wicked.